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 10, 2016
A falsely-captioned video supposedly shows the chief Iranian negotiator on television candidly r ...
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July 9, 2016
Fake news reports a man absorbed in playing the new Pokemon Go app caused a major traffic accident.
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July 7, 2016
Rumor: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hid a close familial connection to an Iranian officia ...
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July 7, 2016
Rumor: The Obama administration unexpectedly released Abdul Shalabi from detention at Guantanamo ...
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July 4, 2016
The American space agency has not issued any warnings about the trajectory of another planet int ...
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July 4, 2016
Donald Trump touched off another brouhaha when he tweeted a criticism of Hillary Clinton that fe ...
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June 30, 2016
A complaint has been filed concerning e-mails sent to foreign officials soliciting donations to ...
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June 29, 2016
The American Red Cross issued a statement apologizing for a pool safety poster that many critic ...
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June 29, 2016
Pepsi has announced that Crystal Pepsi, the iconic 90s clear cola, will be available for a limit ...
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June 28, 2016
Reports stating that women are now required to register with the Selective Service are premature.
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June 28, 2016
Authorities have released 911 calls that capture the panic in the home of a Houston-area mother ...
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June 27, 2016
Sensationalized headlines left readers with mistaken impressions about what a crime-fighting can ...
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June 23, 2016
A civil suit against Donald Trump alleging he raped a 13-year-old girl was dismissed in Californ ...
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June 23, 2016
ISIS "hit lists" are a terrorism technique to generate fear and publicity, not necessarily plans ...
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June 22, 2016
Rumor: Chick-fil-A restaurants have announced they will be reversing their longstanding policy a ...
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June 21, 2016
Speaker Paul Ryan did not literally say that he doesn't care if Donald "Trump destroys the Unite ...
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June 19, 2016
Rsearchers didn't discover that octopus DNA is "alien," or that it originated anywhere but on Ea ...
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June 19, 2016 (Updated: June 25, 2019)
Responsible journalists acknowledge and correct their mistakes, while others just double down on ...
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June 18, 2016
A California pastor praised the Orlando nightclub shooting, saying that it's a tragedy more "pre ...
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June 18, 2016
A photograph taken in Syria in 2013 purportedly captured Senator John McCain posing with ISIS le ...
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