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
Oct. 6, 2015 (Updated: Oct. 7, 2022)
Digital editing strikes again.
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Oct. 5, 2015
Rumor: Umpqua Community College was a gun-free zone when nine people were fatally shot there in ...
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Oct. 4, 2015
A contrast of radically different gun laws and homicide rates in Honduras and Switzerland is bas ...
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Oct. 4, 2015
Rumor: Dr. Ben Carson said that 'anatomically, a Muslim's brain is wired differently than ours.'
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Oct. 1, 2015
NEWS: A woman named Jewel Shuping claims a psychologist poured drain cleaner in her eyes to help ...
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Sept. 30, 2015
NEWS: A forthcoming app called 'Peeple' will purportedly function as a ratings service for priva ...
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Sept. 30, 2015
NEWS: Critics accused Alabama of suppressing black votes after the state announced plans to shut ...
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Sept. 24, 2015
Donald Trump violated Palm Beach ordinances by putting up an outsized U.S. flag and pole, then d ...
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Sept. 22, 2015
NEWS: Chicago TV station WGN issued an apology after a Holocaust-related graphic was used in a Y ...
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Sept. 22, 2015
NEWS: Florida man Fidel Lopez, 24, has been charged with first-degree murder after the brutal ki ...
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Sept. 22, 2015
Reports that notorious mom Casey Anthony was found bludgeoned to death in Ohio are fake news.
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Sept. 21, 2015
A federal judge ruled that the music publishing company that has been collecting royalties for t ...
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Sept. 20, 2015
NEWS: Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli attracted social media outrage over a huge, sudd ...
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Sept. 16, 2015
NEWS: Frito-Lay has announced the release of Doritos Rainbows to support LGBT youth through the ...
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Sept. 16, 2015
NEWS: A Whataburger worker in Lewisville, Texas, was fired after two police officers said he ref ...
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Sept. 15, 2015
NEWS: Irving, Texas, teenager Ahmed Mohamed was arrested and accused of creating a 'hoax bomb' a ...
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Sept. 13, 2015
News: In March 2015, Long Island woman Kamilah (Kam) Brock said she had been involuntarily commi ...
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Sept. 13, 2015
News: A police officer reported that a barista at a Philadelphia Starbucks refused him access to ...
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