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
Oct. 13, 2020
"I think Amy is much, much better looking than the women we have had," Trump supposedly said of ...
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Oct. 13, 2020
"These hypotheticals are usually set up in order to provoke a strong emotional [response]," the ...
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Oct. 12, 2020
We all know Columbus’ three ships were named the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria — but is t ...
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Oct. 12, 2020
An image shared on social media purportedly shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and ...
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Oct. 8, 2020
Lincoln was not above using the enticement of a Supreme Court seat to encourage campaigning on h ...
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Oct. 6, 2020
The 1970s version of Sanders sounds very familiar to modern audiences.
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Oct. 6, 2020
Jamais vu is commonly explained as the phenomenon when people momentarily don't recognize a word ...
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Oct. 5, 2020
Many people are under the mistaken impression that military discharges come in one of two forms: ...
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Oct. 5, 2020
Andrew McCabe did not have any oversight of the investigation into Secretary Clinton's email ser ...
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Oct. 5, 2020
The timeline of Trump's diagnosis and treatment for COVID-19 as provided by officials has been i ...
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Oct. 5, 2020
The Fox News host did once vacation with someone rich and famous.
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Sept. 29, 2020
Drone technology and its possibilities are no longer strange — but are the robots taking deliver ...
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Sept. 28, 2020
A few weeks after Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate, his wife and 1-year-old daughter w ...
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Sept. 25, 2020
Images and stories like these are being used to mislead people about the integrity of the 2020 U ...
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Sept. 25, 2020
The U. S. Democratic presidential nominee quoted part of the pledge during a campaign speech in ...
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Sept. 24, 2020
"I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks ...
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Sept. 24, 2020
The president was initially skeptical of imposing travel restrictions, though he would later cla ...
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Sept. 22, 2020
It is hard to draw a straight line between federal government policy (let alone presidential pol ...
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Sept. 21, 2020
Two people associated with the Center for Medical Progress entered several meetings with Planned ...
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Sept. 18, 2020
FBI Director Chris Wray said of antifa that, “It’s not a group or an organization. It’s a moveme ...
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