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
June 7, 2002
Information about the 'Shakira's Pictures' worm.
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June 7, 2002
Does Hess Oil not buy product from Middle Eastern countries because it is 'owned by a Jewish fam ...
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June 7, 2002
Person who performs kind act for a stranger is warned not to drink Coke after a certain date.
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June 6, 2002
A comparison of compensation paid to September 11 victims and service members killed on active d ...
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June 6, 2002
Artwork shows image of the World Trade Center to be used on a new USPS postage stamp.
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June 5, 2002
Did American president George Bush ask Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso if 'Brazil has black ...
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June 4, 2002
Information about the 'Life is Beautiful' PowerPoint computer virus.
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May 29, 2002
Was a truck carrying ten tons of cyanide hijacked in Mexico?
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May 28, 2002
Photographs allegedly show an enormous bear killed by an Alaskan hunter back in 2001.
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May 28, 2002
Did an 83-year-old grandmother beat up six airport security guards?
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May 27, 2002 (Updated: Sept. 22, 2022)
Sidekicks are usually drawn so as not to detract from the main characters they support.
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May 27, 2002
Did Senator Joseph Lieberman write an 'Open Letter to the French People'?
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May 15, 2002
Does a properly folded U.S. $20 bill reveal images of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade C ...
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May 15, 2002
Did Marriott Hotels International send a letter to an Israeli travel agent addressed to "Jerusal ...
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May 13, 2002
Did George Washington tell of an angel who revealed a prophetic vision of America to him at Vall ...
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May 8, 2002
The false attribution of racist screeds to celebrities is unfortunately not a rare phenomenon.
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May 8, 2002
Does a Middle Eastern advertisement created by Coca-Cola depict the Coke logo emblazoned on the ...
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May 8, 2002
Has Coca-Cola announced that it will be donating four days' worth of income to Israel?
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May 7, 2002
Conventional wisdom holds that one year of human time is the equivalent of seven years in a dog' ...
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May 3, 2002
Although it might sound like a publicist's invention, tough guy actor Humphrey Bogart actually w ...
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