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.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
April 8, 2021
Historically, the National Archives and Records Administration operates Twitter accounts that fo ...
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April 7, 2021
The picture has been around since 2019 and has gone viral multiple times since its original publ ...
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April 7, 2021
A photo of the 45th president's Florida office shared by former aide Stephen Miller on Twitter c ...
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April 6, 2021
Thessaloniki, with a population of nearly 50,000 Jews, fell under German occupation in April 1941.
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April 5, 2021
The experimental program originally described itself as solely for families who are Black, indig ...
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April 1, 2021
The congresswoman claimed that House Speaker Pelosi and her staff gave "no reason" for refusing ...
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March 31, 2021
The administration has said it is seeking a regulatory role in the development of digital vaccin ...
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March 29, 2021
Repeating something countless times over the course of a year does not actually make it a fact.
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March 28, 2021
A news article published during the Trump Administration is being reshared on Facebook as if it ...
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March 28, 2021
The cost of the $1.50 hot dog and soda combo has not changed since 1985.
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March 28, 2021
The visual parallels to the blocked Suez Canal were not lost on social media.
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March 28, 2021
While major shipping companies have diverted some traffic around the southern tip of Africa, scr ...
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March 27, 2021
A great headline does not always make for factual — or even interesting — reading.
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March 26, 2021
Anti-vaccine activists are promoting a veterinarian's claim that the only way to prevent a futur ...
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March 24, 2021
A man dressed as the Joker declared that "F-ing COVID is over.” To celebrate, he made it rain.
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March 21, 2021
The video first went viral in January 2015.
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March 21, 2021
"Alternate arrangements for the teaching of the course have been made," York University later an ...
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March 21, 2021
An edit to Grenell's Wikipedia page by a user named "QWasHere2021" appears to be the culprit.
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March 21, 2021
This really depends on your definition of the terms "new" and "Ms. Frizzle."
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March 21, 2021
A GoFundMe campaign created by a fan that raised $110 before being shut down is apparently newsw ...
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