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
March 11, 2018
A man convicted of sex crimes against children died in prison, but not in the grisly manner clai ...
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March 10, 2018
No huge sum of money was "lost," or is being personally repaid, by former President Obama.
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March 3, 2018
A New York City college is trying to evict a former student who it says is illegally squatting i ...
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March 1, 2018
The news media organization reportedly invested in mechanical assistance to help their journalis ...
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March 1, 2018
The comings and goings of the Trump administration's White House staff may seem like a revolving ...
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Feb. 27, 2018
A 1991 article reported that Trump stopped an assault in New York City shortly after his own mot ...
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Feb. 26, 2018
As usual. satire is mistaken for reality when it reflects something the reading audience fears w ...
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Feb. 25, 2018
Rumors that a worker at Cadbury plant was arrested for contaminating the company's products with ...
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Feb. 25, 2018
President Obama hasn't announced he's seeking an international position he likely couldn't obtai ...
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Feb. 18, 2018
Saying "no one without a law enforcement badge needs this rifle," Ben Dickmann surrendered his w ...
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Feb. 12, 2018
A scurrilous fake news site took a controversial court case and added a fabricated element to it ...
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Feb. 1, 2018
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley only inadvertently 'confessed' to being romant ...
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Jan. 31, 2018
Some people actually believe in the medical misinformation they peddle; others shamelessly risk ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
In 2018 the hoaxes and fake news about a "rigged" Super Bowl started even before the game was pl ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
A new legal frontier in human-robot sexual interactions has not yet been reached as described.
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Jan. 28, 2018
The costly "chilling units" are specialized components that have to be capable of storing suppli ...
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Jan. 27, 2018
A suicide bomber driving an ambulance coasted through a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's cap ...
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Jan. 26, 2018
Presumably, being the fictional mayor of a non-existent town shields one from prosecution for cr ...
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Jan. 26, 2018
Celebrities say the most outrageous things, especially when it comes to politics! Or do they? S ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 25, 2018
President Trump may not talk to special counsel Robert Mueller after all, but not because he was ...
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