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
Oct. 27, 2018
Social media rumors report that voting machines in Texas are changing voters' selections to the ...
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Oct. 15, 2018
The former American VP opined that the Russian president seeks to undermine NATO and the EU, not ...
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Oct. 15, 2018
Rumors swirled on Twitter that Rapper Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) had died from a ‘ligma overdose.’
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Oct. 12, 2018
An out-of-context, incomplete sentence and an apocryphal quotation do not make for an informativ ...
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Oct. 11, 2018
A viral image of one municipal ordinance regarding Halloween activities left viewers wondering w ...
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Oct. 10, 2018
Buy a fact check scorecard, because you can't always tell celebrities apart by the shirts they wear.
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Oct. 9, 2018
A viral Facebook claim about the supposed discovery of a parasite in a piece of Welch's Fruit Sn ...
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Oct. 7, 2018
A warning about a Facebook user's supposedly having received a second friend request from you is ...
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Oct. 2, 2018
A 2016 appeal for which Kavanaugh wrote the decision has no bearing on the use of polygraph test ...
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Oct. 1, 2018
A variant of a years-old rumor about a worker adding HIV-infected blood to foods or beverages ta ...
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Oct. 1, 2018
The news outlet was sued for stating it was "well known in intelligence circles that Seth Rich ...
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Sept. 28, 2018
"Each appointment to our nation’s Highest Court is simply too important to rush to a vote."
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Sept. 25, 2018
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is apparently a Zelig-like figure who has met and posed with every pro ...
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Sept. 23, 2018
Apparently any photograph of a woman semi-clothed and drinking can be used to smear the credibil ...
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Sept. 22, 2018
Rep. Keith Ellison's former girlfriend has leveled charges of "narcissist abuse" against him, bu ...
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Sept. 21, 2018
Nothing says "Halloween fun" like a sexy rape victim.
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Sept. 19, 2018 (Updated: July 9, 2019)
A free Publix grocery coupon Facebook offer is just another version of the ubiquitous survey scam.
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Sept. 16, 2018
This meme is not only false, but it seemingly undermines the very point it's trying to make.
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Sept. 16, 2018
Deceptive memes purport to correct misinformation offered by other supposedly deceptive memes.
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Sept. 16, 2018
It's not uncommon for reporters to call upon dramatic skills in the course of conveying the peri ...
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