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 29, 2016
Online biographical info for the GOP candidate's wife was taken down amid speculation she doesn' ...
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July 27, 2016
A decades-old, false story about President Bill Clinton's holding up air traffic at the Los Ange ...
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July 24, 2016
The GOP presidential nominee raised some eyebrows by pledging support for a non-existent section ...
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July 24, 2016
Yet another retread of the same fake news story has Pope Francis offering his endorsement to a t ...
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July 24, 2016
A list ascribed to Roman statesman Cicero describing "the situation during his lifetime" is apoc ...
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July 21, 2016
Award-winning photograph captures a protester right up against an NYPD officer, but whether she ...
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July 21, 2016
The NBA announced they will be relocating the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte in response to t ...
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July 21, 2016
Massachusetts didn't announce a new law banning the sale of semi-automatic rifles, but rather en ...
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July 20, 2016
Another entry in dueling partisan contentions about who plagiarized whom first and worst holds t ...
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July 19, 2016
Donald Trump and two of his children are witnesses, not defendants, in a tax evasion lawsuit.
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July 19, 2016
Melania Trump did not suggest her husband could "make peace with the blacks" by increasing their ...
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July 17, 2016
Film icons Robert Redford and Meryl Streep aren't married, engaged, or even dating, despite what ...
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July 17, 2016
Republican National Convention staffers were reportedly scrambling to remove signs identifying a ...
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July 16, 2016
Another example of why museum docents and tour guides aren't necessarily sources of accurate inf ...
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July 16, 2016
Who knows what GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's head looks like in its unprepped state?
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July 15, 2016
Just like two years ago, rumors of nationwide 'Day of Rage' protests turned out to be much ado a ...
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July 14, 2016
The owners insist the whole issue is the result of a very big misunderstanding due to poor Engli ...
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July 11, 2016
A disreputable web site distorted a years-old story and falsely asserted that the Burger King fa ...
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July 10, 2016
Fake news reports a 15-year-old boy stabbed his brother to death because he thought the younger ...
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July 10, 2016
Inaccurate image claims the White House was illuminated purple the night Prince died but made no ...
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