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
Dec. 13, 2015
Fake news reports that President Obama achieved the lowest IQ score among all U.S. presidents of ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 30, 2015
NEWS: The federal government has removed bacon, pork chops, pork links, ham and all other pig pr ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Nov. 23, 2015
Reports about President Trump's lowering the age of sexual consent in the U.S. are recycled fake ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Nov. 23, 2015
Nationalists marched on Poland's independence day (11 November 2015), but the demonstrations wer ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 16, 2015
An ISIS "kill list" targeting several U.S. cities and towns is well over a year old and largely ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 15, 2015
Fake news reports hundreds of people died after eating the Patti LaBelle brand 'Patti's Sweet Po ...
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
Nov. 10, 2015
Discolored bananas that have fallen prey to a fungus may be visually unappealing, but they do no ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 10, 2015
A real-life Cruella de Vil, but with cats? No, just more fake news.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 7, 2015
The mystery of the missing wedding rings was solved just in time for the nuptials to proceed.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 4, 2015
A fund-raising campaign for the Triton mask that will supposedly allow divers to breathe underwa ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2015
Yet another heartstring-tugging tale (with photos) of a dog's supposedly saving an abandoned new ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 1, 2015
Steve Burns of 'Blue's Clues' is not dead. Reports of such are another celebrity death hoax fro ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 31, 2015
Starbucks isn't giving away free lifetime passes to celebrate their 44th anniversary. It's a su ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 25, 2015
Barefoot Cellars isn't giving away free cases of wine for their 50th anniversary. It's a survey ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 24, 2015
Jack Daniel's isn't giving away free cases of whiskey for their 125th anniversary. It's a surve ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 20, 2015
The date to which Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown time-travel in ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 12, 2015
Rumor: Having their mouths sewn shut is a current trend among teens.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 8, 2015 (Updated: Aug. 5, 2019)
Let's look at the facts.
Page: 56