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).
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Sept. 10, 2015
NEWS: A California Reddit user claimed his in-laws shot and butchered a pig with strangely blue fat.
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Sept. 5, 2015
Why Sherman Hemsley, Rue McClanahan, Neil Armstrong, and Gary Coleman are among celebrities whos ...
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Aug. 29, 2015
Rumor: Steven Seagal has died of a heart attack at age 63.
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Aug. 16, 2015
On 1 October 2015, smoking became illegal in vehicles carrying passengers under age 18 in Engla ...
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Aug. 15, 2015
Video shows an amazing behind-the-back return by Japanese tennis player Yoshihito Nishioka.
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Aug. 14, 2015
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Aug. 10, 2015
Mexican citizens are indeed required to have government-issued photo ID cards in order to vote i ...
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Aug. 8, 2015
Rumor: CNN and Facebook are donating $1 per share to fund surgery for a boy with a massive tumor.
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Aug. 5, 2015
The story of a man who sued his bride after seeing her without make-up for the first time keeps ...
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Aug. 2, 2015
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July 27, 2015
Some confusion was brought on by junk news and plagiarism.
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July 24, 2015
Despite what you may read on social media, you still need a driver's license to legally drive a ...
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