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
May 27, 2018
Debate continues over how temporary holding facility and processing centers for undocumented mig ...
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May 26, 2018
Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick are both famous for kneeling during football games, but in dramat ...
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May 24, 2018
A tired old trope of fake news purveyors is to claim that legitimate news organizations are the ...
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May 23, 2018
Unfortunate fake news plays on the accomplishment of Stacey Abrams, who could become the nation' ...
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May 22, 2018
The answer to this question depends upon the criteria used for inclusion.
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May 21, 2018
A meme about Wonder Bread's supposedly cutting ties with the NRA is just a bit of political trol ...
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May 20, 2018
The picture in question actually has nothing to do with Germans, fuel prices, or any form of pro ...
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May 20, 2018
One of many hoaxes involving the claim that a common food product has somehow become contaminate ...
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May 17, 2018
According to Kensington Palace, only personal friends of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be ...
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May 14, 2018
Not a realistic way of losing weight, nor a method that's actually been tried.
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May 13, 2018
A compelling video captured an off-duty female Brazilian police officer shooting and subduing an ...
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May 11, 2018
When advertisements imitate scenes from the past, modern commercial creations often become mista ...
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May 10, 2018
A prime example of why considering the context and content of video information is so important ...
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May 10, 2018
This move is possibly fated to happen someday, but for now it's fake news.
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May 10, 2018
Protests by professional athletes have not yet reached this extreme, outside the world of fake news.
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May 10, 2018
Nobody else saw this coming, either. In fact, nobody has seen it yet at all.
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May 10, 2018
McDonald's is always tinkering with their menu, but this would be a monumental change.
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May 9, 2018
Another embellished report from a site with a penchant for spreading fake news about pedophiles.
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May 8, 2018
This was indeed Donald Trump's answer to an interview question, for whatever that's worth.
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May 8, 2018
Web sites continue to confuse consumers with a long out-of-date warning about a listeria-related ...
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