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Caroline Wazer

Caroline Wazer is an assignments editor based in Central New York. Prior to joining Snopes she was an editor at Lapham’s Quarterly, where she led the magazine’s internal fact-checking program for six years and wrote about topics including the representation of history in video games. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, JSTOR Daily, Atlas Obscura and the Public Domain Review. Before she began working in media, she completed a Ph.D in history; her dissertation was about the emergence of public health as a political concept in ancient Rome. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, kayaking and painting.

No, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt didn't say 'Jesus didn't have electricity'

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Feb. 3, 2025

Internet users expressed confusion over whether the quote was authentic.

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Workers Who Built Egypt's Giza Pyramids Received Beer Rations — But Amount Is Uncertain

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Feb. 1, 2025

A claim that they received 4 to 5 liters of beer a day has appeared in social media posts, popul ...

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Musk Said He 'Longs to Get Pregnant'? Not Exactly

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 30, 2025

Musk has repeatedly expressed concern about declining birth rates.

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No Concrete Evidence Barack Obama and Jennifer Aniston Are Having Affair

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 25, 2025

In January 2025, Michelle Obama’s absence from two high-profile events fed speculation about the ...

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Trump Executive Order Didn't Say All Humans Are Female, But Its Sex Definitions Lack Clarity

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 23, 2025

The executive order’s definitions of male and female left room for interpretation contrary to th ...

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MLK Once Said, 'We Need Leaders Not in Love With Money But in Love With Justice'

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 23, 2025

The civil rights leader expressed the sentiment in numerous speeches.

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Unpacking Claims Meta Forced Facebook Users To Follow Trump and Vance

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 23, 2025

Facebook developed its procedure for transitioning accounts from one administration to the next ...

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Meta Didn't Force Facebook Users To Follow Trump and Vance. Here's Why It Might Seem That Way

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 21, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 22, 2025)

Handing over control of the official presidential and vice presidential social media accounts ha ...

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No, Ye Didn't Post This Doodle of Himself and Trump as Stick Figures

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 20, 2025

An image purporting to show a Trump post praising the drawing was a digital forgery.

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Rumor Has It Trump Took Oath of Office Without Placing Hand on Bible. We Checked the Footage

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 20, 2025

Legally speaking, it doesn't matter whether the U.S. president placed his hand on a bible. And h ...

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Golden Retrievers' Average Lifespans Are Decreasing? Here's What Data Shows

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 19, 2025

Internet users claimed the breed's average lifespan has dropped significantly over the past 50 y ...

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Reagan Once Said, 'We Should Measure Welfare's Success by How Many People Leave Welfare'?

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 18, 2025

Social media users have attributed the quote to the former president for years.

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Rumor That Patrick Mahomes Bought Hotel and Fired Employees After Experiencing Racism Is False

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 17, 2025

The rumor originated as an adaptation of a fictional story about Shaquille O'Neal.

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False Rumor Claims Denzel Washington Donated $50M to California Wildfire Victims

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 16, 2025

While some reports about celebrity donations are factual, this one is fabricated.

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This Robert F. Kennedy Quote About the Danger of Extremists Is Real

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 14, 2025

The former attorney general made the comment in 1964, roughly six months after the assassination ...

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Homebuyers Didn't Have To Worry About Credit Scores Until 1989? Not Quite

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 12, 2025

1989 was a milestone year in the credit world, but statistical credit scoring has been around si ...

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Did Kurt Vonnegut Say Society 'Wouldn't Save Itself Because It Wasn't Cost-Effective'?

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 10, 2025

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost- ...

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Real 19th Century Cure for Headaches? Doctors Wouldn't Approve

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 10, 2025

Social media posts claimed the unpleasant-looking procedure was called "vibration therapy."

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Jimmy Carter Once Said This Quote About Strong and Weak Nations?

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 9, 2025

Carter once allegedly said that weak nations, like weak people, "must behave with bluster and bo ...

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Real 37-Million-Year-Old Whale Skeleton Found in Egypt?

Written by: Caroline Wazer

Jan. 7, 2025

Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — or "Valley of the Whales" — is famous for its abundance of fossils from ...

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