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. 6, 2014
Lawyer Larry Klayman files 'deportation petition' to get President Barack Obama ejected from the ...
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Oct. 6, 2014
Did President Obama send a White House representative to thank the mosque of the Oklahoma behead ...
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Oct. 6, 2014
Did a historian really uncover an eyewitness account of Jesus' performing a miracle?
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Oct. 3, 2014
Did the mainstream media ignore an incident in which a Muslim man beheaded two Christians?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 3, 2014
Was a couple kicked off a bus for singing a nursery rhyme that offended a Muslim passenger?
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Oct. 3, 2014
Did Sarah Palin call on President Obama to 'invade Ebola?'
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Oct. 3, 2014
A potato used as a contraceptive grew roots inside a female patient.
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Oct. 2, 2014
A three-year-old Australian boy named William Tyrell has been missing from his New South Wales h ...
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Oct. 2, 2014
Liberia may prosecute Ebola patient who traveled to the U.S. before falling ill.
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 2, 2014
A woman filed suit against a sperm bank after receiving a sample from a black donor.
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Oct. 1, 2014
Flashlight apps could harbor furtive code to steal your personal data and send it to foreign cyb ...
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Oct. 1, 2014
Fox News Channel did not fight, much less win, a court battle in which they asserted they 'had a ...
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Oct. 1, 2014
Has Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe announced plans to begin a 'white Holocaust'?
Written by: David Mikkelson
Oct. 1, 2014
Reporter Meg Kissinger claims a White House aide ordered her not to speak with the crowd at a Mi ...
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Oct. 1, 2014
920 chickens clubbed to death at meat processing plant.
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Oct. 1, 2014
Will the payment of federal tax refunds for 2014 be delayed until October 2015?
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Sept. 30, 2014 (Updated: Sept. 24, 2019)
A viral Facebook post called for prayers for young Christopher Hamrick, who was injured in a car ...
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Sept. 30, 2014
Is MTV introducing a spin-off, 12 and Pregnant?
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Sept. 30, 2014
Angry parents complain to media after Chipotle employees ask them not to change a baby's diaper ...
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Sept. 30, 2014
CDC confirms first case of Ebola in the U.S.
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