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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Feb. 15, 2016
Joaquín García of Spain said that he was unfairly targeted because of his political beliefs.
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Feb. 13, 2016
After missing for decades, Edgar Latulip helped solve his own cold case.
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Feb. 13, 2016
Scalia's body was discovered at the Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa, Texas.
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Feb. 13, 2016
Restaurant staff discovered the dehydrated, malnourished pup curled up in a booth.
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Feb. 12, 2016
Setting your iPhone's date to 1 January 1970 won't bring up a cool new theme; it'll just potenti ...
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Feb. 11, 2016
The takeover of a federal wildlife refuge protesting "government overreach" began on 2 January.
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Feb. 10, 2016
Major news from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) was broken by a cake.
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Feb. 9, 2016
A viral video showed a "weather reporter" getting smacked in the face by a flying fish during a ...
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Feb. 8, 2016
Both "avocado" and "guacamole" derive from the Nahuatl word for the fruit, which only secondaril ...
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Feb. 8, 2016
After anecdotal reports of glitter iPhone cases causing burns in 2016, one manufacturer recalled ...
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Feb. 8, 2016 (Updated: July 13, 2021)
A rare baby dolphin apparently died after being handled by a swarm of tourists in Argentina, alt ...
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Feb. 7, 2016 (Updated: April 13, 2018)
Honorably-discharged veterans of the U.S. military have, under certain circumstances, either rec ...
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Feb. 4, 2016
The tattoo artists wanted to express their support for various presidential candidates — indelibly.
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Feb. 4, 2016
Antonio Docampo García, from the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, only drank red wine.
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Feb. 3, 2016
President Obama didn't demand an admiral stop giving out Bibles; such claims are based on a 2013 ...
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Feb. 3, 2016
A story about meth-addled cannibals came from a site that specializes in secondhand fake news.
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Jan. 31, 2016 (Updated: Jan. 29, 2020)
The now-famous weather-predicting woodchuck was once a bear, a badger, and a hedgehog.
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Jan. 27, 2016
The militia spokesman was killed in an apparent shootout with federal agents; eight people have ...
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Jan. 26, 2016
The Naval Medical Center was on lockdown after reports of an active shooter.
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Jan. 25, 2016
The jury had originally been investigating allegations of criminal misconduct by Planned Parenthood.
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