David Mikkelson
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| David Mikkelson | |
|---|---|
| Born | David P. Mikkelson |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 💼 Occupation | Author, Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Founder and CEO of Snopes.com |
David Mikkelson is an American entrepreneur, author and co-founder and CEO of Snopes.com (also known as Urban Legends Reference Pages); the first online fact-checking website.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Education[edit]
David Mikkelson earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas (San Antonio) and took post-graduate classes at California State University, Northridge without a specific degree plan.[8]
Career[edit]
David's early career consisted of working at the News-Chronicle (newspaper), Teledyne Electronics, the U.S. Postal Service, JPL, Digital Equipment Corporation, Rocketdyne, and Health Net (HMO).[8]
In 1994, David Mikkelson created what became Snopes.com, an urban folklore web site that grew to encompass a wide range of subjects and quickly became a resource to which Internet users began submitting pictures and stories of questionable veracity. According to David's ideology, Snopes.com antedated the search engine concept where people could go to check facts by quick searches - Snopes appeared to be a premature, rather urban legend focused, version of search results of user discussions.[9][10][11][12][8]
In popular culture, a television pilot based on David's site, Snopes.com, called Snopes: Urban Legends, was completed with American actor Jim Davidson as host. However, it did not air on major networks.[13]
David has spoken as an expert on the impact of fake news and investigative journalism at events such as Tech Open Air Berlin and in talks with foreign officials and journalists organized by the U.S. State Department, and he and his work have been featured in news outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, Forbes,[10] and Fortune.[14][11]
Personal life[edit]
By mid-2014, Barbara Mikkelson had not written for the site "in several years,"[1] and David Mikkelson hired employees to assist him from Snopes.com's message board. The Mikkelsons divorced around the same time, and Barbara no longer has an ownership stake in Snopes.com.[1] David writes routinely on Snopes.[15] According to an article called "Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World" on the web site of WIRED magazine,[16] David married a woman named Elyssa Young in late 2016[16].
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Exclusive: How The Truth Set Snopes.com Free". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ "Snopes.com: Debunking Myths in Cyberspace". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ Henry, Neil (2007). American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media. University of California Press. p. 285. Search this book on
- ↑ Brian Stelter (April 4, 2010). "Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net". The New York Times. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ↑ Streitfeld, David (25 December 2016). "For Fact-Checking Website Snopes, a Bigger Role Brings More Attacks". Retrieved 23 August 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ CNN, Doug Criss. "This is where fake news goes to die". CNN. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ Rodriguez, Ashley. "Tips on fighting fake news from the people who debunk it for a living". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Founder". Snopes.com. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ Pogue, David (July 15, 2010). "At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light". The New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2010.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Leetaru, Kalev. "The Daily Mail Snopes Story And Fact Checking The Fact Checkers". Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Carroll, Rory (1 August 2016). "Can mythbusters like Snopes.com keep up in a post-truth era?". Retrieved 23 August 2017 – via The Guardian.
- ↑ "An interview with the editor of Snopes: 'Technology changes, but human nature doesn't'". Washington Post. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ Bond, Paul (September 7, 2002). "Web site separates fact from urban legend". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
- ↑ "David Mikkelson, co-founder of Snopes.com, speaker on Urban Legends and Rumor Research - U.S. Embassy in Switzerland and Liechtenstein". 30 March 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ "We Have a Bad News Problem, Not a Fake News Problem". Snopes.com. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Dean, Michelle (September 20, 2017). "Snopes and the Search for Facts in a Post-Fact World". WIRED magazine. Archived from the original on September 27, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
[...] David began seeing a woman named Elyssa Young, whom he eventually married in late 2016.
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