Alex Kasprak
Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, Motherboard, New Scientist, and other venues. Prior to joining Snopes, he was a staff science writer at BuzzFeed and a science communicator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has master's degrees in geological sciences from Brown University and in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. Kasprak has been with Snopes since 2016 and has served as senior writer since 2019.
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Feb. 28, 2025
The German sprinkler helmet has been fodder for bemused media reports for over a century.
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Feb. 24, 2025
An old bit of misinformation has returned for another bout.
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Feb. 24, 2025
Social media users claimed that the word "freelance" comes from a term for a mercenary warrior. ...
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Feb. 21, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's social media platform has never been available in Ukraine.
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Feb. 17, 2025
For years, people have wrongly attributed this quote to the former British prime minister.
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Feb. 6, 2025 (Updated: Feb. 7, 2025)
"It is imperative that we provide President Trump with every resource necessary," the bill's spo ...
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Feb. 5, 2025
"That group has been deleted," Elon Musk said of a federal office that produced and designed Dir ...
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Feb. 4, 2025
The change came amid a larger purge of content on government websites relating to trans people.
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Feb. 4, 2025
Oysters sustain themselves by sucking microscopic plankton out of the waters they inhabit, a rea ...
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Jan. 31, 2025
Kennedy claimed Sanders was "the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money" in Congress in ...
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Jan. 30, 2025 (Updated: May 1, 2026)
A legally contested executive order on foreign aid did, at least initially, halt the distributio ...
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Jan. 30, 2025
Trump implied that a long-standing FAA policy could be to blame for the deadly collision between ...
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Jan. 29, 2025
Kennedy's claim he "had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa" is a stretch, even b ...
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Jan. 29, 2025
Copypasta shared in the wake of President Trump's Inauguration Day pardon of Jan. 6 defendants l ...
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Jan. 19, 2025
The French president met his wife at age 15 when she was his drama teacher.
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Jan. 17, 2025
According to NBC News, the Obamas, Clintons and Bushes won't be at the traditional lunch that fo ...
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Jan. 16, 2025
The image quickly became a "beacon of hope" for some in the wake of Los Angeles' deadly January ...
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Jan. 4, 2025
"This is a true story," Shaun Maguire, a California-based venture capitalist, posted on X.
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Jan. 3, 2025
The Telegram account General SVR is popular with British tabloids but has a less-than-perfect tr ...
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Jan. 2, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 8, 2025)
Authorities are investigating the incident as a potential terrorist act.
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