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
Feb. 9, 2016
Two incidents at one McDonald's were spun into a claim that the chain has implemented a new poli ...
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Feb. 8, 2016
Fake news reports the QB of the Carolina Panthers was arrested for "fixing" a Super Bowl game an ...
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Feb. 8, 2016
No scam: the popular fast casual Chipotle Mexican Grill chain is really offering up mobile coupo ...
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Feb. 7, 2016
Businesses are not celebrating their anniversaries by giving away free product to Facebook users ...
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Feb. 6, 2016
Southwest Airlines is not giving away four tickets to Las Vegas and $5,000 spending money to Fac ...
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Feb. 6, 2016
A compendium of the most popular legends and rumors associated with the Super Bowl. How many ha ...
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Feb. 5, 2016
Paterson city police are investigating the apparent assault of a man captured in a video that wa ...
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Feb. 4, 2016
Dubious reports hold that a Chinese man expired during sex and had to be taken to the hospital t ...
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Feb. 4, 2016
The U.S. Constitution doesn't prevent the federal government from holding the title "to any real ...
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
Feb. 4, 2016
A meme about Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders displayed questionable accuracy an ...
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Feb. 4, 2016
An old and misleading report about how Iceland supposedly eliminated its entire population's mor ...
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Feb. 3, 2016
Spoof news reported GOP candidate Donald Trump's supposed initiative to “Make America Great Agai ...
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Feb. 2, 2016
Online nose-thumbing takes place after Trump's second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
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Feb. 1, 2016
Fake news article reports that drug lord Joaquin Guzmán has escaped from a Mexican prison for th ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Feb. 1, 2016
Grocery chain Wegmans warned Facebook users that a digital coupon was a scam.
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Jan. 31, 2016
Fake news article reports that President Obama implemented an unconstitutional gun control measu ...
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Jan. 31, 2016
Facebook-based scam claims Delta Air Lines is giving away free boxes with first-class air travel ...
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Jan. 31, 2016
Fake news reports that the subject of the Netflix documentary 'Making a Murderer' has suffered ...
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Jan. 22, 2016
The playful baby elephant seen in a touching photograph was zoo-born; he didn't lose his mother ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 21, 2016
A photograph showing Abraham Lincoln with author Edgar Allan Poe imagines a fascinating rendezvous.
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