David Mikkelson
David Mikkelson founded the site now known as snopes.com back in 1994 as a creative outgrowth of his wide-ranging interests in a variety of subjects (particularly folklore) and his professional expertise in the computer industry. Handling everything from researching and writing articles about urban legends to managing the site’s technical infrastructure, David saw snopes.com (which antedated the development of automated search engines) quickly become the go-to place for Internet users to query about anything questionable they encountered online, establishing it as the oldest and best known online fact-checking outlet operating today. David’s educational background includes a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and about a zillion course hours of post-graduate classes at California State University Northridge taken with no particular degree program in mind. His previous employment encompassed stints with the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, USPS, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2019
Does quoting some else's words back to them constitute a breach of decorum?
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July 16, 2019
Even for high-profile, sensational legal cases, junk news about the event is often consumed more ...
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July 16, 2019
Hard to imagine anyone wants us to "eat our beloved puppies," least of all the U.S. Congress.
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July 15, 2019
Epstein's ties to two U.S. presidents, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, have drawn a good deal of ...
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July 11, 2019
Cedar Point amusement park warned Facebook users that a digital coupon for free tickets was a scam.
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July 10, 2019
Context is key, which is why politically-slanted reporting frequently omits it.
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July 8, 2019
Digging into this viral meme was a tankless task.
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July 8, 2019
A free $80 H-E-B grocery coupon Facebook offer is just another version of the ubiquitous survey ...
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July 8, 2019
"I will not sit idly by while liberals blackwash everyone from Marty McFly to Luke Skywalker to ...
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July 7, 2019
The intact recovery of seemingly fragile objects from the ocean's depths has long fascinated the ...
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July 6, 2019
"To be looked at as feeling unsafe when you have law enforcement around you is somewhat perplexi ...
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July 2, 2019
Failed prognostications don't fade away -- they gain immortality in the digital age.
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June 30, 2019
A Republican political operative established mockingly fake websites for several Democratic pres ...
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June 24, 2019
A minor Seattle street-cleaning issue from mid-2017 was played up by partisan websites as if it ...
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June 24, 2019
"As they say, time will tell."
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June 24, 2019
"It’s like when Puff Daddy changed his name to P Diddy," Palin also reportedly said. "You’re not ...
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June 23, 2019
“It makes no sense that consumers can purchase bottled water that is less safe than tap water."
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June 10, 2019
Every sudden death of an Arkansan or a politician is not somehow tied to the Clintons.
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June 9, 2019
Either version of Frank Castle -- human or feline -- is still one of our favorite Marvel characters.
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June 9, 2019
That's enough dead people to stock a whole new set of Major League baseball teams.
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