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 2, 2015
The popular actor supposedly maintained that the taking of land from Native Americans was justif ...
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April 30, 2015
Billionaire David Rockefeller did not receive multiple heart transplants, including one performe ...
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April 29, 2015
Rumor: A nine-year-old boy was expelled from school because he said he didn't like President Obama.
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April 28, 2015
Rumor: Animals are fleeing Yellowstone Park, indicating that a supervolcano eruption is imminent.
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April 28, 2015
Albert Einstein did not describe love as a "universal force" in a letter to his daughter Lieserl ...
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April 28, 2015
Rumor: A Spanish winemaker is planning on cutting down 150 acres of California Redwoods in order ...
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April 28, 2015
Rumor: Photograph shows a bunch of black dolls hung from a tree in a Baltimore neighborhood to i ...
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April 28, 2015
Rumor: Freddie Gray was injured in a car accident and underwent spinal surgery prior to his arre ...
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April 28, 2015
Rumor: Freddie Gray, who died from spinal injuries while in Baltimore police custody, had a leng ...
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April 28, 2015
Rumor: A classic 'yogiism' uttered by baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra explains the dif ...
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April 27, 2015
Photograph reportedly depicts a Christian Saudi woman gruesomely punished to silence her from pr ...
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April 27, 2015
Rumor: Entering a secret code enables you to play the video game Tetris on a Canon calculator.
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April 27, 2015
Rumor: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz posted a photograph showing him posing with a ...
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April 24, 2015
Rumor: Photograph shows an orca attacking a black bear.
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April 24, 2015
Rumor: The Supreme Court has ruled that police can no longer stop, speak to, or look at any memb ...
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April 24, 2015
Rumor: A new law just passed in Louisiana makes it illegal to purchase used items with cash in t ...
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April 23, 2015
Conspiracy theories abound to explain why several Walmart stores suddenly shut down in April 2015.
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April 23, 2015
Rumor: John Fawcett, a suspect in a number of sex crimes against a child victim, remains at large.
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April 23, 2015
Rumor: A company has released 'child love dolls' to provide a safe sexual outlet for pedophiles.
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April 22, 2015
Reports that former NBA superstar Michael Jordan has died of a heart attack are another celebrit ...
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