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
Nov. 3, 2020
A routine review of junk news content.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 2, 2020
President Trump repeatedly asserted that Joe Biden improperly tried to help his son’s business i ...
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Nov. 1, 2020
An altered video circulated widely on social media appeared to show Biden making an embarrassing ...
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Nov. 1, 2020
"If you cheat [at golf], you will be the loser, because you are cheating yourself," the actor on ...
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Nov. 1, 2020
The Democratic presidential candidate referenced the number of Americans who have died from COVI ...
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Oct. 30, 2020
Some human voters can in fact be perfect about filling in all the blanks.
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Oct. 30, 2020
Democrats are "totally fine keeping liquor stores open, but they want to close churches all over ...
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Oct. 29, 2020
Trump previously proclaimed he knew the person who penned an anonymous Op-Ed critical of his adm ...
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Oct. 28, 2020
The proposed Biden/Harris plan would replace individual retirement account deductions with a fla ...
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Oct. 28, 2020
Ashley Biden introduced her father at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
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Oct. 27, 2020
The Democratic presidential candidate has not proposed a 3% property tax.
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Oct. 26, 2020
"We are not prepared for a pandemic," Biden wrote, several weeks ahead of COVID-19's being ident ...
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Oct. 23, 2020
One would think poor people are most at risk around food insecurity.
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Oct. 22, 2020
In two debates, U.S. President Donald Trump mistakenly conflated a remark made by Joe Biden with ...
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Oct. 22, 2020
Social media users twisted Biden's words from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1985 by om ...
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Oct. 22, 2020
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell became a topic of speculation after photographs seem ...
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Oct. 19, 2020
The law "does not make public employers absolute insurers against all wrongs," a three-judge pan ...
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Oct. 17, 2020
A little background research can go a long way towards avoiding the making of embarrassingly ina ...
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Oct. 14, 2020
Barrett wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel in 2019 that upheld the dismissal of a workplace ...
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Oct. 13, 2020
A social media post claimed the Supreme Court nominee wrote that, "If you force your child to su ...
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