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
March 31, 2019
The "Fox & Friends Weekend" show issued an apology after displaying an embarrassingly inaccurate ...
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March 25, 2019
Children and dogs go together. Children and heartworms, not so much.
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March 25, 2019
You can misrepresent demographic trends, but you can't fight them.
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March 24, 2019
A map demonstrates the population disparity between densely populated Los Angeles County and muc ...
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March 23, 2019
"'It didn’t kill them’ @BarbraStreisand did you really say that?!"
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March 21, 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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March 20, 2019
"Whatever your argument is, the minute you base it on a lie, you're a demagogue."
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March 20, 2019
A simple yet powerfully poignant reminder of the human toll of mass shootings.
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March 18, 2019
“To all you misguided, uninformed liberal ‘women’ demonstrating in favor of embracing Islam ..."
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March 15, 2019
"I dunno how to explain this but watching these rides gives me a real deep primal fear and makes ...
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March 15, 2019
"This is a man who thinks he is running for president in 2020?"
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March 15, 2019
What do these four examples have in common? Nothing of significance, as far as we can tell.
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March 15, 2019
"Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."
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March 6, 2019
A meme presents a false equivalency between presidential payoffs to women made in completely dif ...
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March 6, 2019
Little Caesars Pizza issued a social media statement warning customers of a fraudulent coupon th ...
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March 2, 2019
More junk news from puerile minds who consider defamation to be a sidesplitting form of "satire."
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Feb. 27, 2019
Unlike 'A Taste of Armageddon,' we still aren't fighting wars completely with computers.
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Feb. 26, 2019
Warnings have been spread worldwide about the 'game's alleged potential to harm young people who ...
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Feb. 25, 2019
A politically dubious Facebook page attempted to put Senator Bernie Sanders on the wrong side of ...
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Feb. 24, 2019
State lawmakers could keep President Donald Trump off the ballot in New Jersey in 2020 unless he ...
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