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Arturo Garcia

Arturo Garcia worked at Snopes between October 2016 and February 2019. Based out of California, Garcia worked in both print and television news before writing for online news outlets. With an AA in journalism from Southwestern College and a BA in Communications from San Diego State University, Arturo produced work published at The Raw Story, Racialicious, Alternet, and The Guardian prior to joining Snopes.com. Garcia is an avid Doctor Who fan eagerly awaiting delivery of his new TARDIS.

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Are Nestle and Coca-Cola Trying to Privatize a South American Aquifer?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

March 6, 2018 (Updated: March 7, 2018)

Some fringe blogs in North America picked up a claim about the Guarani Aquifer that has already ...

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Did Target Issue an Easter Egg Recall?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

March 5, 2018

A questionable, undated blog reported the recall as "fresh" — ignoring the fact that it was issu ...

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Did a Transgender Teen Boy Win a Girls' State Wrestling Title?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

March 1, 2018

Mack Beggs's request to compete in the boys' division was stymied by Texas state officials.

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Does Chicago's Identification Card Program Allow Undocumented Immigrants to Vote?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 28, 2018

Election officials rejected the possibility that CityKey cards could cause an upswing in voter f ...

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Did a Gay Man 'Turn Heterosexual' After a Near-Death Experience?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 26, 2018

A fake news web site used a photograph of a white nationalist to spruce up another of their fabr ...

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Are Some Instant Pot Cookers Having Meltdowns?

Written by: Kim LaCapria Arturo Garcia

Feb. 24, 2018 (Updated: March 5, 2018)

Days after a customer's account spread on social media, the company warned about a product defec ...

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Did CNN Give a Parkland Shooting Survivor Scripted Questions?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 22, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 27, 2018)

The network denied Colton Haab's allegation that it asked him to write a speech for a town hall ...

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Social Media Platforms Tighten Rules, Prompting Censorship Claims

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 21, 2018

Both Twitter and Medium implemented changes that led to various accounts being deleted or suspended.

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Was The Cast of 'Black Panther' Added to FBI Watch List?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 21, 2018

A satirical web site played on allegations of racial profiling by the bureau for a humorous stor ...

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Far Right Blogs, Conspiracy Theorists Attack Parkland Mass Shooting Survivor

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 20, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 21, 2018)

Disreputable web sites called it a "red flag" that the father of high school student David Hogg ...

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Is This James Hetfield Standing Near a Bear He Killed?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 19, 2018

The Metallica vocalist was falsely identified in a photograph amid 2014 protests over his involv ...

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Are Third-Graders Raffling Off an AR-15 After the Parkland Shooting?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 19, 2018

A youth baseball coach in Missouri said he wanted to make the giveaway "a positive thing."

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Are White People Being Assaulted at Showings of 'Black Panther'?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 16, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 19, 2018)

Online trolls tried to push claims of violence, but they were quickly foiled by others on social ...

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Was the FBI Tipped Off About the Parkland Shooter?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 15, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 16, 2018)

A Mississippi YouTube user contacted law enforcement after a disturbing comment appeared on one ...

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Activists, Retailers Deride White House's Proposed 'Harvest Box' Program

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 14, 2018

The head of one advocacy group says the program hinges on an "antiquated" idea about people enro ...

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Did a Utah School Bar Girls From Refusing Boys' Dance Requests?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 14, 2018

The rules for Kanesville Elementary's school dance attracted national attention before being "re ...

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Is a Murderous Taxi Driver Killing People in His Cab?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 13, 2018

Social media users from Nigeria to New York City accused an unidentified man of being a taxi dri ...

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Senator Cory Booker

Did Sen. Cory Booker Put Undocumented People 'Before Seniors and Veterans'?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 12, 2018

A graphic disseminated dismissive (and entirely fabricated) statements from the New Jersey Democrat.

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Did a Professor Flunk a Student for Correctly Saying that Australia Is a Country?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 9, 2018

Ashley Arnold attracted media attention after challenging — and triumphing over — her instructor ...

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Did Melania Trump's Parents Arrive in the U.S. Through 'Chain Migration'?

Written by: Arturo Garcia

Feb. 8, 2018

A Twitter post painted Viktor and Amalija Knavs's immigration status as a symbol of hypocrisy on ...

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