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
Oct. 24, 2017
The actor best known for his starring role on the 1980s TV series “Benson” has passed away in Lo ...
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Oct. 21, 2017
Reports that the embattled film producer turned over "names of elite pedophiles" in Hollywood an ...
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Oct. 21, 2017
Facebook users offered reactions ranging from puzzlement to terror upon encountering a video tha ...
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Oct. 19, 2017
The photograph showed two white children who were holding what appeared to be leashes attached t ...
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Oct. 14, 2017
Kymberley Suchomel, who was in attendance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas and fled ...
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Oct. 13, 2017
Reports that the Mandalay Bay security guard wounded in the Las Vegas mass shooting has been arr ...
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Sept. 26, 2017
Critics of President Trump's focus on football players' national anthem protests have gleefully ...
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Sept. 26, 2017
Critics have pointed to the National Football League's seemingly contradictory stances on patrio ...
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Sept. 25, 2017
A request for prayers for the families of 30 U.S. military personnel who died when their helicop ...
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Sept. 24, 2017
Reports that the NFL was fining Pittsburgh Steelers players $1 million each for staying in their ...
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Sept. 24, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
Confusing claims about whether the NFL's rulebook or game operations manual specifically require ...
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Sept. 23, 2017
U.S. health authorities have issued a travel warning for Mexico after several people were sicken ...
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Sept. 11, 2017
A meme widely circulated in the wake of a controversy over Confederate memorials does not accura ...
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Sept. 3, 2017
Reports that the beleaguered pastor of the Houston megachurch provided shelter from the city's f ...
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Aug. 27, 2017
Residents at a Texas nursing home were airlifted to safety by helicopter after being trapped by ...
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Aug. 21, 2017
Two conservative web sites grossly misrepresented the content of a lyric essay in The Atlantic m ...
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Aug. 13, 2017
An image positing that First Lady Melania Trump again copied words from Michelle Obama while den ...
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Aug. 13, 2017
A photograph showing a black police officer protecting participants in a white supremacist prote ...
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July 23, 2017
Reports that a waste company will be offering curbside dead body pickup service to offset “Trump ...
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July 20, 2017
A collection of urban legends about the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing.
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