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. 20, 2016
Take a closer look at this ethereal photograph showing a "super moon" perched atop a radio teles ...
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Jan. 19, 2016
Former Clinton White House advisor Dick Morris made several assertions about Hillary Clinton in ...
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Jan. 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton supported Barry Goldwater in 1964, but she didn't vote for a candidate who vowed ...
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Jan. 19, 2016
Saudi Arabia experienced heavy snowfall in January 2016, but this photograph of snow-covered pal ...
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Jan. 17, 2016
A warning about a “new killer insect” that is able to spread a skin-altering virus when touched ...
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Jan. 17, 2016
We don't know who the Florida Powerball winner is yet, but it's not a 32-year-old military widow ...
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Jan. 17, 2016
Another Powerball-related fake news story claims one "lucky" winner was found dead with a kilo o ...
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Jan. 15, 2016
Some clickbaiting articles from January 2016 made it sound as if former Mouseketeer Annette Fun ...
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Jan. 15, 2016
Some changes are coming to Social Security on 1 May 2016, but they are not major ones that "thre ...
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Jan. 11, 2016
The German dictator didn't say that the best way to control a people is to "take a little of the ...
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Jan. 10, 2016
Formerly missing teen Rosemary Gullet is no longer the subject of an active search.
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Jan. 7, 2016
Why does snopes.com sometimes contradict what museum docents and tour guides say? Because those ...
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Jan. 6, 2016
A PSA featuring a gorilla signing a warning to humans about climate change is essentially nothin ...
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Jan. 5, 2016
You don't have to "take me out to the ballgame" if I already live there!
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Dec. 30, 2015
Photobombing is seemingly an activity not limited to terrestrial mammals.
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Dec. 28, 2015
These are the 25 urban legends that circulated the most widely on the Internet in 2015.
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Dec. 28, 2015
Rumor: A Saudi television station blurred out Michelle Obama's face during a news broadcast.
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Dec. 19, 2015 (Updated: July 10, 2019)
An offer on Facebook for free ALDI grocery coupons is not legitimate.
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Dec. 19, 2015
An image of Donald Trump not placing his hand over his heart during the playing of the U.S. nati ...
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Dec. 19, 2015
A death hoax about comedian Tommy Chong has been republished several times, but the Cheech and C ...
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