Brooke Binkowski
Brooke Binkowski worked at Snopes between November 2015 and July 2018. Binkowski is an award-winning journalist and researcher. She has written and produced for CNN, CBS, NPR, the Globe and Mail, AJ+, the Christian Science Monitor, and various other outlets. Brooke speaks two languages well and five languages very badly. She loves to travel, run, play music, and read, and is an avid saber fencer and an accordion enthusiast.
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June 11, 2018
Disreputable web sites conflated a homeless camp in Arizona with a carefully orchestrated multi- ...
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May 14, 2018
Melania Trump's surgery was for an issue that her office described as benign but requiring medic ...
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March 26, 2018
Conspiracy theorists used an out-of-context clip to raise "questions" about a statement made by ...
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March 12, 2018 (Updated: March 13, 2018)
Texas officials say the attacks may be racially motivated and caution residents not to open any ...
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Feb. 17, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 18, 2018)
A meme about Snopes.com has been debunked by the very source it cites.
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Jan. 31, 2018
Injuries and at least one fatality are reported, but no passengers on the West Virginia-bound tr ...
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Jan. 24, 2018
Lou Anna Simon announced her resignation the same day that the university's medical doctor was s ...
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Jan. 20, 2018
The unprecedented finger-pointing took place amid a government shutdown and looming government w ...
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Jan. 19, 2018
The name of the wireless technology standard apparently originated during a Toronto pub crawl on ...
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Jan. 16, 2018
Turkey "cyber army" Ayyıldız Tim is claiming responsibility for the hacks, which have been direc ...
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Jan. 13, 2018
A terrifying emergency alert falsely notified people of an incoming ballistic missile strike.
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Jan. 4, 2018
A contentious race for a House seat still has no official winner after the Democratic candidate ...
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Nov. 21, 2017
Former teen idol Cassidy of "Partridge Family" fame had been battling dementia and suffered mult ...
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Nov. 7, 2017
The baseball player's private airplane crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida ...
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Nov. 6, 2017
A rumor that the popular messaging site was about to be taken off line originated on a prank new ...
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Nov. 6, 2017
A mass shooting at a Texas church on 5 November 2017 led to an avalanche of false information.
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Nov. 5, 2017
A man who reportedly walked in during services at Sutherland Springs' First Baptist Church and b ...
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Nov. 1, 2017 (Updated: Nov. 5, 2017)
A gunman reportedly opened fire in a story at a shopping center in the Denver suburb of Thornton.
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Sept. 28, 2017
A "dramatic escalation in tremors" is leading seismologists to believe that an eruption is immin ...
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Sept. 27, 2017
Hefner, who was 91, died at his home of natural causes.
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