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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Nov. 3, 2020
More evidence is required before this claim can be rated in a traditional Snopes fact check.
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Oct. 30, 2020
Trendception: A master class in the use of spurious data to make bogus and self-referential poli ...
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Oct. 27, 2020
The ballots, en route to the residents of a single Kentucky zip code, were discovered unopened i ...
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Oct. 26, 2020
A conspiracy theory based on one photograph won't cut it if there are literally hundreds of othe ...
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Oct. 15, 2020 (Updated: Oct. 17, 2020)
Using internal emails, sworn testimony, and other documents, Snopes was able to break down exact ...
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Aug. 14, 2020
First elected to office at age 29, Joe Biden had consistently been ranked one of the least wealt ...
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Aug. 11, 2020
An aspirin a day will not keep the COVID-19 away.
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Aug. 5, 2020
A clone of The Beauty of Life (BL) site called The Lion has existed since early July. Facebook b ...
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Aug. 4, 2020
Activist Michael Shellenberger argues that fears of a future climate-driven apocalypse are unfou ...
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July 2, 2020
Most scientists argue that ACs do not increase the risk of COVID-19 transmission and some say th ...
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June 30, 2020
Researchers have identified a relative of the H1N1 "swine flu" in pigs with "pandemic potential. ...
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June 23, 2020
The rapper had been described by some as the "leader" of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHO ...
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June 19, 2020
In an interview, the president bragged that "I did something good."
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June 17, 2020
In a viral video, Tatum, who is Black, argues his success in America disproves the reality of wh ...
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June 11, 2020
“We are ANTIFA, and we're willing to pay up to 1,000 people $25 per hour for protester,” one ad ...
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June 9, 2020
To support a claim like this, one wants some evidence other than a slow motion video of a man wa ...
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June 9, 2020 (Updated: June 10, 2020)
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June 8, 2020
Social media posts showed someone slashed the tires on nearly all of the cars parked at a Minnea ...
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June 5, 2020
Amid vague rumors about "antifa" infiltrating Black Lives Matter protests and inciting violence, ...
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June 5, 2020
The Asheville police chief later said the incident “embarrassed our city and our department.”
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