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
May 8, 2015
Crime alert warns that mothers who post their children's names, birth dates, and birth weights o ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 8, 2015
Rumor: Photograph shows an avalanche that occurred on Mt. Everest after the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 8, 2015 (Updated: Dec. 7, 2020)
A 'vintage color photograph' from 1941 showing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was actually ...
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May 8, 2015
Rumor: Home Depot is giving out coupons to Facebook users.
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May 7, 2015
A prehistoric snake dubbed Titanoboa cerrejonensis is estimated to have been an astonishi ...
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May 7, 2015
Rumor: The Nevada Athletic Commission has voided Floyd Mayweather's boxing victory over Manny Pa ...
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May 7, 2015
Rumor: The Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Dr. Ben Carson for President.
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May 6, 2015
Callers pretend to be IRS fraud division employees and tell victims they owe tax monies that mus ...
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May 6, 2015
Rumor: Japanese engineers have created a robotic bear to aid in assisted suicides.
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May 5, 2015
Rumor: Actor Michael J. Fox chose the middle name 'Jello' for himself when he was a child.
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
May 5, 2015
Imagine a world in which children could choose their names based on their favorite desserts.
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May 5, 2015
Rumor: Nuby brand pacifiers are being recalled because they pose a choking hazard to babies.
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May 5, 2015
Fauxtography: Photograph purportedly shows two children holding each other for comfort in the af ...
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May 5, 2015
Rumor: Photograph shows a billboard condemning the lack of municipal support for police, put up ...
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May 5, 2015
The Cinco de Mayo holiday is not a celebration of Mexico's achieving independence from Spain, no ...
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May 4, 2015
Was it actor John Wayne or one of the characters he portrayed who said this?
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May 4, 2015
Fauxtography: Official scorecard from the Mayweather-Pacquiao prizefight documents that the real ...
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May 4, 2015
Rumor: Gideons International sent 100,000 paperback Bibles to Nepal as a form of earthquake disa ...
Written by: Dan Evon David Mikkelson
May 2, 2015
Conspiracy theory claims the seven astronauts supposedly killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challe ...
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May 2, 2015
Rumor: A Florida man has 'married' a 6-month-old boy.
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