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
Dec. 10, 2020
The bill does seem to add a "duty to retreat" clause to the defense of self, or of another perso ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 8, 2020
Flowbee has stated that the actor has no endorsement deal with the iconic, vacuum-based, self-gr ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 8, 2020
Snopes did a little digging into the We The People Convention and learned it has donated a signi ...
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Dec. 7, 2020
Both local police and an attorney general's office have investigated the claim.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Dec. 3, 2020
The claim, which has spread across the anti-vaccine internet zeitgeist without context, stems fr ...
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Dec. 2, 2020
A viral anti-vaccine video mangles the science behind the production of a potential COVID-19 vac ...
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Dec. 2, 2020
When it comes to reindeer, our imaginations tend to easily take flight.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 13, 2020
The suggestion that working from home is a "privilege" led some on social media to dig into the ...
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Nov. 12, 2020
Don't feel bad if you've never heard of quantum blockchain systems.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 10, 2020
Placing words next to a picture of a man is not the same as the man's writing those words himself.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 10, 2020
It is challenging to take something away that was never given in the first place.
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Nov. 6, 2020
And if so, where did they go?
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 6, 2020
Discussing election mechanics is easier when you actually know how elections work.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 6, 2020
The campaign website, until recently, had been accepting recurring donations up until Election Day.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 5, 2020
A flawed graphic on a local news program is not compelling evidence of widespread fraud.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 5, 2020
And do turtles make accusations about election malfeasance?
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 4, 2020
Filler footage from C-SPAN went viral.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 4, 2020
It depends on whom you ask.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 4, 2020 (Updated: Nov. 25, 2020)
Barack Obama received 69,498,516 votes in the 2008 U.S. presidential contest.
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Nov. 3, 2020
A network of Facebook pages with names like Blacks for Trump and Catholics for Trump disappeared ...
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