Jim and Irene Mikkelson were visiting Washington from Charlotte,North Carolina when they stopped by the museum.
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Mister Mikkelson called the exhibit educational.
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"It is really difficult to track some of those down when all you have is a purported e-mail from somebody named Janet, and no other identifying information, " David Mikkelson said.
In addition to chasing the money trail, uncovering the original source and motives of out-there conspiracies and hoaxes online is always difficult, said David Mikkelson, co-founder of the debunking site Snopes.com.
It took weeks, Mikkelson said, for a European tourist to come forward as the creator of doctored photos of a man on a balcony of one of the World Trade Center towers with a plane bearing down.