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
April 24, 2018
Yet another specious "report" from a fake news site that seems to have a fascination with pedoph ...
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April 23, 2018
A man convicted of sex crimes against a child died in prison, but not in the grisly manner claim ...
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April 19, 2018
The art of using memetic fake news to publicize fake web sites.
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April 18, 2018
No, no, no ... don't blame your own fakey fake websites on other people!
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April 17, 2018
Several popular trolling elements — YouTube, Abortion, Bitcoin, Planned Parenthood — rolled up i ...
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April 17, 2018
One of several similar WhatsApp malware hoaxes warns that a "Martinelli" video could "hack" your ...
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April 17, 2018
Most good jokes are funny enough in their own right without the need for them to be attributed t ...
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April 16, 2018
Anderson was a three-time Emmy nominee for his role as Judge Harry Stone in 'Night Court.'
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April 16, 2018
In 2013, Donald Trump issued multiple warnings to his predecessor about attacking Syria without ...
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April 14, 2018
Philadelphia police are investigating an incident captured in a viral Facebook video.
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April 14, 2018
The longtime radio host died at his Pahrump home, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said.
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April 9, 2018
A missing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doctor was found dead, but he was not a "wh ...
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April 8, 2018
The former first daughter did not posit a huge demographic shift occurring in the space of a mer ...
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April 4, 2018
A site known for spreading fake news about the deaths of prominent musicians is at it again.
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April 3, 2018
An account of a Georgia woman who fatally shot a burglar in her home was embellished with fabric ...
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March 30, 2018
A humorous article was just a seasonal jape, but not quite in the way that many readers recognized.
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March 25, 2018
The outspoken survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting has been campai ...
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March 18, 2018
The reasons behind a high school student's suspension were misconstrued in a debate over a natio ...
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March 14, 2018
Recycling a ubiquitous rumor from every election in recent memory makes for poor political trolling.
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March 14, 2018
A Democrat apparently won the special House election in southwestern Pennsylvania, with no judic ...
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