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
Sept. 15, 2018
A video clip of a report captured during Hurricane Florence appeared to show some very selective ...
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Sept. 15, 2018
The Texas education board approved dropping figures such as Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller fro ...
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Sept. 15, 2018
"These types of actions are not reflective of the core values of the Coast Guard.”
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Sept. 13, 2018
An estimated 20,000 pallets of water bottles have been sitting on a landing strip in Puerto Rico ...
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Sept. 10, 2018
"Under no circumstances will any Nike product ... be purchased for use or delivery at any City o ...
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Sept. 9, 2018
The popular Los Angeles-born actor did not suddenly pass away at age 74 in September 2018.
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Sept. 8, 2018
Nike may not be "taking a drastic hit to their bottom line," but they didn't say that quite so b ...
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Sept. 7, 2018
Junk news has gotten even junkier by simply recycling and republishing previous fabrications.
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Sept. 6, 2018
Junk news sites cashed in on the supposed craze for burning Nike apparel as a protest over the c ...
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Sept. 5, 2018
A Donald Trump tweet from 2013 about the Obama administration and reporter Bob Woodward was seiz ...
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Sept. 4, 2018
Nobody is paying for ailing children's organ transplants or life-saving surgeries based on how o ...
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Sept. 3, 2018
The aircraft normally designated “Air Force Two” carried John McCain and his family to Washingto ...
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Aug. 30, 2018
Some In-N-Out Burger fans were torn after it was revealed the company had donated $25,000 to the ...
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Aug. 26, 2018
A notorious producer of junk news posted a fabricated meme about the relocation of a military ce ...
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Aug. 19, 2018
The network is hoping to avoid controversy by not changing anything about their “Monday Night Fo ...
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Aug. 17, 2018
Kohl's department stores are not distributing $150 "Black Friday" coupons as part of an online p ...
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Aug. 11, 2018
News reports and photographs abound documenting the birth of children weighing upwards of 17 pou ...
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Aug. 10, 2018
The instructions on the back label of a bacon package advised consumers to "complain to elected ...
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Aug. 9, 2018
Iran has been criticized by the international community for allowing the use of stoning as a for ...
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Aug. 7, 2018
Critics of Alex Jones and InfoWars took delight in pointing out the host's seeming double standa ...
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