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: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
March 24, 2017
A photograph showing a chaotic scene on the Westminster Bridge after a London terror attack was ...
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March 23, 2017
The discount shoe chain has filed for Chapter 11 protection and will close nearly 400 stores.
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March 23, 2017
Details of a viral claim that President Trump took legal action against a teen's kitten-punch we ...
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March 22, 2017
Reports of a Georgia man high on meth who went on a killing frenzy after binge-watching too many ...
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March 22, 2017
Reports that the controversial American civil rights activist was gunned down in Chicago are fak ...
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March 21, 2017
Reports that Hillary Clinton would be filling an open U.S. Senate seat in New York, vacated by a ...
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March 15, 2017 (Updated: Nov. 29, 2017)
Rumors that various restaurants around the world were shuttered for serving "the most dangerous ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 11, 2017
The conservative web site has been the focus an effort to stop advertisers from doing business w ...
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March 11, 2017
Reports about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's being given an ominous note in the middl ...
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March 6, 2017
The retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate made a controversial comment about im ...
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March 6, 2017
Reports that former president Barack Obama was about to be arrested over charges of illegal wire ...
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March 6, 2017
Reports that a Florida drug trafficker pardoned by President Obama was re-arrested for the murde ...
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March 5, 2017
American Legion Riders say they were told they couldn't wear 'gang-affiliated' jackets at a Dave ...
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March 4, 2017
The President tweeted that he "Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower ju ...
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March 1, 2017
An unrelated image of Keith Ellison and Debbie Wasserman Schultz was apparently used to claim De ...
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Feb. 27, 2017
Images of White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway's kneeling on an Oval Office couch touched ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 25, 2017
Emmy-winning actor Bill Paxton has passed way at age 61 due to complications from surgery.
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Feb. 22, 2017
News reports conflated a genuine incident of human trafficking with a completely unrelated claim ...
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Feb. 22, 2017
Letters circulating on Facebook assert that military bases plan to reduce childcare programs bec ...
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Feb. 22, 2017
Fake news sites pumped out false stories about President Trump's signing visa-free travel polici ...
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