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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Sept. 18, 2016
Misleading ads touting a "new law" that provides consumers with a "cash rebate on every single p ...
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Sept. 16, 2016
Neither the Libertarian nor the Green Party candidate made the CPD's cut for the September 26 pr ...
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Sept. 14, 2016
Donald Trump spoke of having the tallest building in downtown Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks, ...
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Sept. 12, 2016
Yet another Hillary Clinton health-related conspiracy theory focuses on a metallic object that s ...
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Sept. 7, 2016
Some amusing fake news holds that nearly 5 million uncounted California electronic ballots were ...
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Sept. 7, 2016
An Albertson's spokesperson said the incident arose out of a misunderstanding over the use of co ...
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Sept. 6, 2016
Proceedings in a civil suit against Donald Trump alleging he raped a 13-year-old girl have been ...
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Sept. 4, 2016
Reports that singer Miley Cyrus’ lifeless body was found by her entourage in a bathtub after she ...
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Sept. 4, 2016
The FDA has banned marketing of antibacterial soaps with certain ingredients such as triclosan t ...
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Aug. 28, 2016
The latest in many "third term" conspiracy theories holds that President Obama plans to stay in ...
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Aug. 22, 2016
Claims of hair loss resulting from use of WEN products have dogged the company for years.
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Aug. 21, 2016
A young couple reportedly slept in a foul-smelling Thai hotel room, unaware that the odor issued ...
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Aug. 17, 2016
A rambling, jumbled portion of a Donald Trump speech from July 2016 amused and stunned social me ...
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Aug. 14, 2016
A video clip captured a ball girl making a terrific catch of a foul ball at a Major League Baseb ...
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Aug. 14, 2016
Ron Wayne was the third co-founder of Apple Computer, but he soon sold his 10% share in the comp ...
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Aug. 14, 2016
A young woman named Elisa Lam disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Los Angeles in 2013, ...
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Aug. 13, 2016
Where does Donald Trump get his news? Probably not from snopes.com, as some poorly written repo ...
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Aug. 10, 2016
The evidence-free, conspiracy theory linking of unrelated deaths into a large-scale nebulous pol ...
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Aug. 2, 2016
A photograph shows the Clintons posing with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. But what's the point?
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Aug. 1, 2016
Election-year tropes offer contrasting views of Donald Trump's business bankruptcies.
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