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. 4, 2021
A TikTok video made an impressive number of false statements in 15 seconds.
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Feb. 2, 2021
The "fully cooked 100% bacon paste that could be squeezed from a tube" allegedly has its roots i ...
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Feb. 1, 2021
YouTube, dank memes, and years-old clickbait collided in June 2020 to foster the scientifically ...
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Jan. 31, 2021
Baseless innuendo is great for clicks.
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Jan. 31, 2021
It has nothing to do with Disney, but that nickname works better than "Military-Patriotic Park o ...
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Jan. 31, 2021
A newly discovered, miniature chameleon may be the world's smallest adult male reptile. Evolutio ...
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Jan. 31, 2021
Thousands of languages have existed throughout the history of humanity. There is no evidence the ...
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Jan. 31, 2021
"You actually believe that I was drinking the blood of children?" Anderson Cooper asked the guest.
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Jan. 28, 2021
Beginning around Jan. 22, 2021, users claimed that simply typing a single letter or the word "vi ...
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Jan. 28, 2021
The tweet was a contribution to the hashtag #ObamaTVShows.
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Jan. 27, 2021
Gov. Kevin Stitt defended the purchase in April, saying the money spent "will not have gone to w ...
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Jan. 26, 2021
A feature in the German Sunday paper Welt am Sonntag asked every federal state in the country if ...
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Jan. 26, 2021
The Twitter account of the former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump shared the image as a d ...
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Jan. 25, 2021 (Updated: Jan. 27, 2021)
Anti-vaccine propagandist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., capitalized on the death of the 86-year old Am ...
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Jan. 24, 2021
The assertion was made after the host said he hadn't washed his hands in 10 years.
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Jan. 24, 2021 (Updated: Feb. 2, 2021)
Are "Ranger qualified" troops allowed to call themselves "Army Rangers"?
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Jan. 24, 2021
It is fairly easy for someone to start a petition online.
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Jan. 24, 2021
A new Washington Post series of Biden administration profiles based on previously published mate ...
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Jan. 24, 2021
The president's lead Secret Service agent is American.
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Jan. 21, 2021
Members of Proud Boy Telegram channels feel betrayed.
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