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. 20, 2014
Is giant retailer Walmart selling caskets and urns?
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Nov. 20, 2014
Can your answering a call from the number 96723345 enable scammers in Peru or Pakistan to clone ...
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Nov. 20, 2014
Does Hillary Clinton want to ban beards because they are sexist?
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Nov. 20, 2014
FSU student Jason Derfuss survived a campus shooting after a bullet intended for him lodged in a ...
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Nov. 19, 2014
Game maker Cards Against Humanity sold 30,000 boxes of bull feces during a Black Friday promotion.
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Nov. 19, 2014
Rumor: A 179-year-old man is living in India.
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Nov. 19, 2014
The FDA did not bust Chipotle for using dog and cat meat in their food. It's fake news.
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Nov. 19, 2014
Did Orly Taitz uncover a hidden connection between attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch and Er ...
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Nov. 18, 2014
Were Green Bay Packers receivers caught using 'performance enhancing gloves'?
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Nov. 18, 2014
Did Raven Symone accuse Bill Cosby of molesting her?
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Nov. 18, 2014
Photograph claimed to be a 430-pound buck shot in Hartford, Michigan.
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Nov. 18, 2014
Did Chicago Public Schools plan to teach fourth and fifth graders about 'safe anal sex' and the ...
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Nov. 18, 2014
Did President Obama secretly meet with Ferguson protesters and urge them to 'stay on course'?
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Nov. 17, 2014
Can you Win a free BMW on Facebook?
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Nov. 17, 2014
Was NFL quarterback Tim Tebow Arrested for Soliciting a Prostitute?
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Nov. 16, 2014
Rumor: The world will run out of chocolate by 2020.
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Nov. 16, 2014
Is a circulating e-mail really the opinion of a dying "old black vet" named William G. Lillas?
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Nov. 14, 2014
Image purportedly shows Muslim children celebrating a bloody ritual involving knives in Atlanta.
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Nov. 13, 2014
A viral video purportedly showed a Syrian 'hero boy' faking death under sniper fire to save a li ...
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Nov. 13, 2014
Has Congress eliminated the child tax credit, earned income tax credit (EITC) and mortgage deduc ...
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