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).
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Nov. 1, 2016
Fabricated news sometimes hews close enough to real news that the two overlap, but that doesn't ...
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Nov. 1, 2016
A warning about a computer virus being spread via social media with pictures of Donald Trump bei ...
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Oct. 30, 2016
Reports that the Clinton Foundation purchased over $137 million of illegal arms and ammunition a ...
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Oct. 29, 2016
The Queen has not urged Americans to write in her name on Election Day in order to transition th ...
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Oct. 29, 2016
Claims of voter fraud in North Carolina turned out to be merely a Facebook joke.
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Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: Drivers in China commonly intentionally kill pedestrians in hit-and-run accidents to mini ...
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Oct. 23, 2016
FACT CHECK: Was Brandon High School ordered to remove the hymn 'How Great Thou Art' from ...
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Oct. 23, 2016
FACT CHECK: Did Chipotle create a 'Never Forget 9/11' ad campaign featuring burritos in the plac ...
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Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: 'Saturday Night Live' aired a 'Conspiracy Theory Rock!' segment once in 1998, after which ...
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Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: A Facebook page was suspended because the Marine Corps emblem violates the network's comm ...
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Oct. 23, 2016
Rumor: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $992.2 million to Planned Parenthood.
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Oct. 22, 2016
The retailing giant's Halloween offering of a 'Suicide Scar Wound' costume accessory didn't sit ...
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Oct. 20, 2016
A bank is leaving 100 "lucky pennies" in cities across the United States, each one worth $1,000 ...
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Oct. 20, 2016
The Daily Caller lied and falsely reported that 16 states would be using voting machines control ...
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Oct. 19, 2016
A record number of people were "deported" from the U.S. during President Obama's tenure as presi ...
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Oct. 18, 2016
His Holiness has offered only superficial commentary about Donald Trump and has not denounced th ...
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Oct. 17, 2016
Reports that the famous drag queen said he was groped by Donald Trump at a party in 1995 are fak ...
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Oct. 17, 2016
A 180-year-old English legal case is often cited as the forerunner of "no means no" and a woman' ...
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Oct. 16, 2016
Reports of a Danish woman allowed to fertilize her own eggs with the frozen sperm of her decease ...
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Oct. 16, 2016
Gruesome reports of a killer clown in Memphis murdering people and stuffing their bodies into a ...
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