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
June 17, 2016
Identifying America's "worst mass shooting" is problematic due to the varied factors that go int ...
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June 15, 2016
A viral social media post about perceived inconsistencies in the "math" of the June 2016 Orlando ...
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June 12, 2016
Fake news reports that former Southern Baptist minister Pat Robertson asserted the Orlando night ...
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June 4, 2016
Kelli Burns, a mass communication professor, was reported as saying that Facebook is listening t ...
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June 4, 2016
A photograph supposedly showing 5,000 UCLA students holding "a candlelight vigil for fallen ISIS ...
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May 30, 2016
Claims that top Obama administration officials watched the Benghazi attack unfold in real-time b ...
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May 25, 2016
Videos of home testing of bottled water handed out in Flint do not demonstrate the existence of ...
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May 25, 2016
Lord of the Flies author William Golding did indeed once proclaim that women are "far s ...
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May 24, 2016
An Alabama veteran who claimed he was denied access to a gas station's restroom by a Muslim mana ...
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May 24, 2016
Inaccurate warnings about an imminent ban on smoking in vehicles when minors are present have be ...
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May 18, 2016
An article reporting that the Cowboys' quarterback was arrested for using a men's bathroom in No ...
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May 8, 2016
A controversial photograph showecd an employee at Home Depot wearing a cap bearing the slogan " ...
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May 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton's campaign made payments to data destruction companies, but no evidence links th ...
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May 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton's role in a 40-year-old rape case became the focal point of a viral meme in 2016 ...
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April 18, 2016
Fake news reports a redheaded teenage boy has launched a controversial 'wrongful life' lawsuit a ...
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April 18, 2016
An article reporting the fiery resignation speech of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunf ...
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April 17, 2016
A disreputable web site posited a link between Ted Cruz's father and Lee Harvey Oswald based on ...
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April 17, 2016
An online hoax held that Coca-Cola had bought up rival soda brand Dr Pepper and would be shuttin ...
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