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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May 9, 2023
The former president was fighting claims that he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll when he denied s ...
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May 8, 2023 (Updated: May 9, 2023)
A dive into the long and complicated history of the Lahore diamond, worn by Queen Camilla at the ...
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May 5, 2023
"Used to be all cool, dancing to MJ in the subway train, but as of late he's become a maniac," a ...
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May 4, 2023
Jordan Neely was pronounced dead after being held in chokehold by another rider on a New York Ci ...
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May 3, 2023
Despite viral videos asserting these processes are well underway, such claims lack a factual bas ...
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May 2, 2023
The existence of both the job and the clickbait headlines about that job are nothing new.
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May 2, 2023
A viral image misrepresented an advertising campaign used for the launch of a new line of M&M's ...
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May 1, 2023 (Updated: May 2, 2023)
Asking for clarity on DeSantis' involvement in force-feeding is an eminently fair question.
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April 27, 2023
Conspiracy theories about a purported "UN Agenda 21/2030" have been on the internet for years.
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April 26, 2023
This is not the first time Dominion Energy, an unrelated company, has been the basis of ill-info ...
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April 26, 2023
The will, which surfaced amid a three-generation inheritance dispute, did not prevent Carlson fr ...
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April 24, 2023
“This is a greenlight to transphobic family members to engage in state sponsored kidnapping,” on ...
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April 21, 2023
Although eviscerated for overacting by a New York Times film critic, the dog in a viral tweet wa ...
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April 20, 2023
Fox Corporation’s chief communications officer told The Lever that Fox considered at least a por ...
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April 19, 2023
The entirety of the claim apparently comes from what Hersh describes as "one knowledgeable Ameri ...
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April 18, 2023
A piece of satire got shared without the disclaimer.
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April 17, 2023 (Updated: April 18, 2023)
Gosar referenced a piece that originated as an article published by Russian state media decrying ...
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April 14, 2023
A melange of conspiracy theories about global elites was Frankensteined into an April 2023 artic ...
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April 13, 2023
A cache of documents that first appeared on the Discord server "Thug Shaker Central" appeared to ...
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April 12, 2023
There's a reason The New York Times described Pope Francis as "the star of A.I.-generated photos."
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