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
Feb. 16, 2019
The United States has in fact been under a constant state of emergency for the last 40 years.
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Feb. 9, 2019
By Tacoma standards, Winter Storm Maya was indeed predicted to be a "snowpocalypse."
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Feb. 9, 2019
Another lame celebrity death hoax from the lamest of junk news sites.
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Feb. 9, 2019
More lame "satire" about Muslims and terrorism from the lamest of junk news sites.
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Feb. 7, 2019
The details of a compelling in-flight rescue account remain elusive and difficult to verify.
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Feb. 2, 2019
It's the end of the line for Google+, the potential Facebook rival that never really took off.
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Jan. 31, 2019
"There are numerous curious laws in different countries of the African continent."
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Jan. 27, 2019
You'd think a photograph like this would have drawn a little more attention.
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Jan. 27, 2019
"Any illegal vote deprives Americans of their voice."
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Jan. 20, 2019
"Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a photo with a quote nex ...
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Jan. 20, 2019
President Donald Trump seemingly boasted to reporters about how well San Antonio’s non-existent ...
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Jan. 20, 2019
Robert Edward Lee was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Conf ...
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Jan. 20, 2019
According to the Old Testament, the Nephilim were were the offspring of the "sons of God" and th ...
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Jan. 16, 2019
Some activities really don't lend themselves to parent-child participation.
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Jan. 16, 2019
Recalls were issued after the FDA received complaints that dogs consuming the potentially tainte ...
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Jan. 12, 2019
A troll is a person who posts inflammatory content with the intent of provoking readers into di ...
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Jan. 7, 2019
This year's tax season may see even more confusion than usual due to the government shutdown.
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Jan. 6, 2019
"Somebody who a lot of people don’t give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris ...
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Jan. 4, 2019
"These recent discoveries could strangely give credence to conspiracy theorists who have claimed ...
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Jan. 2, 2019
The SS Warrimoo was reportedly once navigated to a point such that it simultaneously spanned fou ...
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