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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Nov. 28, 2014
Did a Ferguson, Missouri, protester accidentally burn down his own house?
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Nov. 27, 2014
Has President Obama ordered the Federal Reserve to adopt the Euro?
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Nov. 26, 2014
Did Homeland Security uncover a terrorist plot planned for Black Friday 2014?
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Nov. 26, 2014
Did Sam's Club and Walmart donate $10,000 to the Darren Wilson defense fund?
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Nov. 26, 2014
Erroneous information led to false rumors about the TImes' coverage of the Michael Brown case.
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Nov. 26, 2014
Did St. Louis prosecutor Robert McCulloch sell t-shirts to raise money for the defense of Office ...
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Nov. 26, 2014
Did CPS take three young children from their parents because the parents chose homebirth?
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Nov. 26, 2014
Image depicts Mike Brown posing with a gun and holding money in his mouth?
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Nov. 25, 2014
Was Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt arrested for cocaine possession?
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Nov. 25, 2014
Did President Obama file federal charges against officer Darren Wilson after a grand jury declin ...
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Nov. 25, 2014
Is Budweiser ditching their famous Clydesdale ads in order to appeal to young beer drinkers?
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Nov. 24, 2014
Lego distributed letters with some building block kits in the 1970s to encourage gender equality.
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Nov. 24, 2014
Did North Dakota name a landfill after President Obama?
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Nov. 24, 2014
Was a teen boy in Arizona arrested for masturbating under a 'self-rape' law?
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Nov. 24, 2014
Rumor: A Colorado school changed the Pledge of Allegiance to replace the word 'God' with 'Allah.'
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Nov. 22, 2014
Have millions of Thanksgiving turkeys been recalled due to avian flu?
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Nov. 21, 2014
Did Sarah Palin call on President Obama to send immigrants back across the 'Mexican Ocean?'
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Nov. 21, 2014
Was a retired marine forced to remove USMC decals from his car or be fined, while his neighbors ...
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Nov. 20, 2014 (Updated: Aug. 23, 2022)
Photographs purportedly show the aftermath of a car fire caused by a GPS device.
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Nov. 20, 2014
Do residents of Sweden participate in a shared 'Flogsta scream' every night at 10 or 11 PM?
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