Damakant Jayshi
Damakant Jayshi worked at Snopes between March 2023 and mid-May 2023. With over a decade in journalism, Jayshi has donned many hats — copy editor, reporter, writer, and fact-checker. Before joining Snopes, he was a general assignments reporter for Wausau Pilot & Review, a digital newspaper in Wisconsin. He has covered politics, parliament, international affairs, violent conflict, refugees, and health, among other topics. He is the founder of South Asia Check, Nepal’s first fact-checking website, that, in addition to fact-checking claims, critiqued news media’s prolific use of anonymous sources. Damakant is a 2007 Nieman Fellow.
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May 16, 2023
According to Finnish folklore, giants and trolls left behind the massive balancing rock, but geo ...
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May 15, 2023
The website 4thePURE featured a video showing former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pro ...
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May 15, 2023
The former president issued the message on Mother's Day to "Mothers, Wives and Lovers of the Rad ...
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May 13, 2023
It appears that porters in Turkey indeed once carried drunk men home in basket.
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May 12, 2023
On May 12, 2023, Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that Linda Yaccarino would become the new CEO ...
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May 12, 2023
In May 2023, a jury in New York found that Trump had defamed writer E. Jean Carroll by denying h ...
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May 11, 2023
The island pictured here is just off the coast of Le Morne in Mauritius and offers a spectacular ...
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May 11, 2023
LIFE magazine arranged for the astronaut's family to watch the liftoff from a boat the publisher ...
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May 10, 2023
The YouTube celebrity is known for his philanthropy, though he has also faced criticism over it.
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May 10, 2023
The actor has been a target of pedophilia-related conspiracy theories for several years.
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May 10, 2023
The New York Republican has been taken into custody. Here's the 13-count indictment against him.
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May 9, 2023
With a spike in mass shootings in 2023, the U.S. approached a new record for mass shooting-relat ...
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May 8, 2023
According to reports, Netflix has the license for the popular crime series until February 2025.
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May 8, 2023
With Title 42 COVID-19-related restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border set to expire on May 11, 2 ...
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May 7, 2023
The video was digitally created.
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May 5, 2023
Even the internet pooh-poohed it.
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May 4, 2023
The photo is a result of someone editing an image from a real footage of the Florida governor an ...
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May 3, 2023
Democrats cried foul when House Republicans passed a bill in 2023 mandating trillions of dollars ...
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May 3, 2023
Amid alarms over rapid advances made by artificial intelligence (AI), an old warning from physic ...
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May 2, 2023
The real robots can perform a number of tasks, including backflips and dancing.
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