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).
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July 8, 2018
The diaper-clad 'Trump Baby' stands nearly 20 feet high, sports the president's signature blond ...
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July 7, 2018
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July 6, 2018
An outbreak of cyclosporiasis linked to pre-packaged Del Monte Fresh Produce vegetable trays has ...
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July 1, 2018
The 81-year-old justice's resignation announcement triggered a spate of conspiracy posts focused ...
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June 25, 2018
NASA’s latest image of Jupiter is the most mesmerizing picture of our solar system's gas giant yet.
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June 16, 2018
The FDA is advising consumers to not eat any Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal, regardless of size o ...
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June 11, 2018
Neither Pizzagate nor a "child trafficking bunker" in Tucson is real or connected to illegal act ...
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June 10, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 3, 2019)
A fake news site twisted information about self-serve kiosks into a false claim that McDonald's ...
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June 10, 2018
A disreputable web site with a penchant for pedophilia-related clickbait deceptively reported a ...
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June 9, 2018
The frozen, uncooked and breaded chicken tenderloins being recalled may be contaminated with blu ...
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June 9, 2018
An arrested Florida man professed an intent to kill child molesters, but he didn't kill, set fir ...
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June 9, 2018
A haunting photograph and a stirring tale of maternal sacrifice: one is real, the other isn't.
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June 9, 2018
Some fake news sites just can't get over their obsessions with pederasty, likely because it make ...
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June 5, 2018
One relative said the facts in the searing death notice are true, but "there is a lot of stuff t ...
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June 3, 2018
A spoof of the Starbucks race controversy and anti-bias training featured an apocryphal quote fr ...
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June 3, 2018
A photograph of President Obama with current and future FBI directors is neither ominous nor rev ...
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June 2, 2018
A Florida man named Jesse Pariseau tweeted about an alleged encounter with Donald Trump which su ...
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May 29, 2018
What seemed like a barb directed at Fox News and its fans by a Home Depot customer service rep w ...
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May 29, 2018
The comedian issued a string of tweets referencing conspiracy theories involving Chelsea Clinton ...
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May 28, 2018
A transport vehicle outfitted for children held at an immigrant detention facility has been desc ...
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