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. 17, 2018
The authorship of an opinion piece defending President Trump's lack of decorum and dignity in of ...
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Jan. 17, 2018
Reports that former NFL star O.J. Simpson was rearrested while attempting to slip across the U.S ...
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Jan. 15, 2018
The non-thinking person's way to generate faux political outrage is to suggest any addition to A ...
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Jan. 15, 2018
The famed civil rights crusader has been the focus of many rumors and fake news pieces over the ...
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Jan. 11, 2018
Two important Christian observances fall on dates that are also secular holidays in 2018.
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Jan. 10, 2018
Reports that University of Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough's scholarship was revoked over an ...
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Jan. 10, 2018
Reports that New Jersey state senators were arrested in connection with a child prostitution rin ...
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Jan. 9, 2018
The problem here is that our legal system doesn't really provide for the prosecution of fictiona ...
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Jan. 9, 2018
Reports that the former president's foundation is being investigated for racketeering are fake news.
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Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that the former First Lady was arrested after acting “unpredictably violent” during a do ...
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Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that a federal judge overturned a Syrian immigrant's conviction and made aspects of Shar ...
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Jan. 7, 2018
The putative victim supposedly dreamed that he cheated on his girlfriend with a waitress at a go ...
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Jan. 7, 2018
Reports that a Waffle House waitress told church choir members she “was forbidden by her holy bo ...
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Jan. 6, 2018
Distributors of sweetened drinks in the Emerald City now have to pay an excise tax of 1.75 cents ...
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Jan. 5, 2018
Reports that President Trump's political rival would narrate a tell-all book about his presidenc ...
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Jan. 1, 2018
Reports that the U2 frontman proclaimed during an interview that "Donald Trump is destroying Ame ...
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Dec. 29, 2017
Humphreys's resignation follows a backlash over comments he made that appeared to equate homosex ...
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Dec. 28, 2017
An image comparing changes in the financial status of former and current United States president ...
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Dec. 28, 2017
Reports that President Trump issued an order authorizing the United States Treasury to freeze th ...
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Dec. 26, 2017
Reports that the Hungarian-American billionaire experienced a life-threatening cardiac condition ...
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