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
Jan. 25, 2018
Curious political rumor holds that Vice President Mike Pence will be stepping down from the Repu ...
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Jan. 25, 2018
The man heading an investigation that may implicate President Trump will not be stepping down ov ...
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Jan. 24, 2018
Fake news crosses the line from the barely plausible to the ludicrously ridiculous.
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Jan. 24, 2018
The woman had supposedly disappeared after being abruptly dismissed in 1985 and was reportedly p ...
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Jan. 23, 2018
Some fake news is so fake that it doesn't even make coherent sense.
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Jan. 23, 2018
The news magazine offered a law professor's hypothetical musings, not a report about President T ...
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Jan. 23, 2018
The 'Rocky' star supposedly decried the former president for having 'lived his whole pathetic li ...
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Jan. 22, 2018
Of the many causes behind the January 2018 U.S. federal government shutdown, bribes to senators ...
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Jan. 21, 2018
Reports that Malia Obama was arrested after being caught drinking while underage and running nak ...
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Jan. 21, 2018
Reports that a televangelist disclaimed Donald Trump's alleged affair with a porn actress as "sh ...
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Jan. 21, 2018
Reports that the New York senator accepted a campaign donation from pro-immigration groups just ...
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Jan. 21, 2018
A viral fake tweet caused some social media users to question whether the Tide Challenge spelled ...
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Jan. 21, 2018
Clickbait web sites generate traffic by putting controversial political statements into the mout ...
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Jan. 20, 2018
Who's most to blame for failing to "get everyone in a room" to "make a deal" when a government s ...
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Jan. 20, 2018
A dog bite attorney's anti-pitbull video will not be airing during Super Bowl LII.
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Jan. 20, 2018
The president apparently misspoke while delivering remarks to the 45th March for Life in Washington.
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Jan. 18, 2018
U.S. Army medics will not be treating battlefield injuries with homeopathic dilutions and prayer ...
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Jan. 18, 2018
Reports of a tourist's unfortunate bout of stomach upset on a Spanish roller coaster are fake news.
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Jan. 18, 2018
Reports that a Chinese engineer contracted an STD after having sexual intercourse with a sex rob ...
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Jan. 17, 2018
The long-awaited reveal was a list of stories about Trump that were corrected or retracted by th ...
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