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. 19, 2020
"The Beverly Hillbillies" remained a popular TV series up to the end, but it drew the wrong type ...
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Dec. 16, 2020
Understanding the U.S. presidential election process is key to explaining its results.
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Dec. 15, 2020
Rejecting state-certified electoral ballots is not as easy as some Trump supporters would have it.
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Dec. 14, 2020
An anonymous teacher’s lesson to students on happiness has made the rounds of Facebook.
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Dec. 14, 2020
One famous person was not among the many people Trump indicated an intention to pardon.
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Dec. 10, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump demonstrated in December 2020 that one can move the goal posts and s ...
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Dec. 9, 2020
Beware of imitations -- many poll workers look alike.
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Dec. 7, 2020
Congress may be empowered to declare war, but not on each other.
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Dec. 6, 2020
Lander was best known for playing the goofy greaser Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman on the television ...
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Dec. 2, 2020
Just because we personally like something doesn't mean it's popular enough to stay on the market.
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Dec. 1, 2020
Can a candidate receive more than 100% of the vote, recorded in a locale that isn't real?
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Nov. 30, 2020
It’s unlikely the Georgia Secretary of State’s office will further examine absentee voter signat ...
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Nov. 30, 2020
Do not attribute to conspiracy what can easily be explained by demographics.
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Nov. 29, 2020
A claim that Trump's legal supporters won "a major injunction" in trying to overturn election re ...
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Nov. 28, 2020
A repeated election fraud claim by Trump about the number of voters in Detroit bears no relation ...
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Nov. 27, 2020
A repeated election fraud claim by Trump about the number of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania bea ...
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Nov. 24, 2020
Certainly the automotive industry would be interested in this occurrence, and not for religious ...
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Nov. 24, 2020
If customers truly didn't see this coming, it's only because they're not paying attention to any ...
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Nov. 23, 2020
The clickbait never sleeps.
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Nov. 23, 2020
The annual presidential Thanksgiving tradition in 2018 eerily foreshadowed the real 2020 U.S. pr ...
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