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
Jan. 21, 2021
Shanties show the clear influence of the African-American tradition of work-songs.
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Jan. 18, 2021
"From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a ...
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Jan. 17, 2021
"Let us begin by guarding against every enemy threatening the perpetuity of free republican inst ...
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Jan. 14, 2021
An arrest for election-related offenses in Texas in January 2021 had no connection to the Biden ...
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Jan. 13, 2021
Shifting political tides often make previous public statements seem embarrassing in retrospect.
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Jan. 6, 2021
Many previous political tweets proved not to have aged well as chaos unfolded at the U.S. Capito ...
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Jan. 5, 2021
Sharing doctored CNN news chyrons is a cottage industry on social media platforms.
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Jan. 5, 2021
The dongfish lives in the online world, but in no other habitat.
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Jan. 4, 2021
The idea that vaccinations will be used by the government to secretly implant tracking devices i ...
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Dec. 31, 2020
Several products from SPORTMiX pet foods were found by the FDA to have high levels of aflatoxin, ...
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Dec. 30, 2020
Future White House occupants have figured prominently — but not consistently — when Gallup has a ...
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Dec. 29, 2020
The region is a notorious part of the world where scores of ships and planes have supposedly van ...
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Dec. 29, 2020 (Updated: July 13, 2022)
Pennsylvania officials warned of "the dangers of uninformed, lay analysis combined with a basic ...
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Dec. 29, 2020
In addition to public figures named, 11% of Americans identified a relative or friend as the man ...
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Dec. 29, 2020
The Trump administration established the Space Force as a separate military branch in December 2 ...
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Dec. 27, 2020
Social media posts attempted to tie the Christmas morning explosion in Nashville to a Trump supp ...
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Dec. 27, 2020
The motive behind an explosion that rocked Nashville on Christmas morning is murky, but no evide ...
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Dec. 23, 2020
“Part of God’s love is experienced, according to my faith tradition, in the way that we support ...
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Dec. 23, 2020
Counties are not a significant factor in U.S. presidential elections, but population density is.
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Dec. 19, 2020
Social media posts are untrue: no persons who received COVID-19 vaccine in Alabama have died.
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