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
July 19, 2017
The same fake news report of an estranged husband who murdered his wife and three children has b ...
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July 15, 2017
Reports that a dying CIA agent confessed to blowing up WTC Building 7 on 9/11 through controlled ...
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July 8, 2017
A report of lava gushing out of geysers at Yellowstone National Park following a string of nearb ...
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July 5, 2017
Does recent unusual geothermic and seismic activity in Yellowstone Park foretell a coming catacl ...
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June 18, 2017
Reports that the Fox News host was about to die after a bicycling accident were fake news.
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June 17, 2017
Satirical pieces live on, long after the target of their spoofing has faded from the public cons ...
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June 12, 2017
Reports that the minor celebrity from the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign was killed in a freak ...
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June 11, 2017
Reports of a terrorist who accidentally killed himself while attempting to smuggle hand grenades ...
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June 11, 2017
Reports that the city of Richmond is evicting low-income residents to decrease the municipal pov ...
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June 10, 2017
Reports that the DEA raided the vacation ranch of U.S. Senator Hal Lindsay of New Jersey and sei ...
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June 5, 2017
Reports that executive branch agents raided and shut down the EPA and documented that climate ch ...
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June 5, 2017 (Updated: June 27, 2017)
Reports of a Supreme Court decision holding that President Trump's travel bans are "well within ...
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June 4, 2017
Reports of the arrest of three cannibalistic Floridians who feasted on human remains for medical ...
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June 2, 2017
A popular social media item wrongly claims that consumers are not obligated to pay back debt tha ...
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May 23, 2017
Reports that "one of the nation’s most respected physicists" has warned that fidget spinners cou ...
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May 14, 2017
Reports that the Fox News Channel host succumbed to injuries from an automobile accident are fak ...
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May 12, 2017
Florida football coach Jim McElwain and sandwich chain founder Jimmy John Liautaud have both den ...
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May 9, 2017
Reports that the former Fox News host was beaten in a New York City bagel shop by a group of lib ...
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May 8, 2017
A "recent" heartwarming viral story offered as a counterpoint to prominent news reports about so ...
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May 7, 2017
Reports about President Trump's purchasing a former Rockefeller estate in Maine for use as a "su ...
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