David Mikkelson is the founder and CEO of Snopes.com, the oldest and most-respected fact-check site online. Mikkelson founded the site 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 the veracity of anything questionable they encountered online. https://www.snopes.com https://twitter.com/snopes https://www.facebook.com/snopes

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