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 1, 2023
The U.S. government seized the struggling First Republic Bank on May 1, 2023, and sold it to JPM ...
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April 28, 2023
The 2014 video clip appeared to show the eponymous host of "The Jerry Springer Show" admitting t ...
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April 28, 2023
According to critics, the increases would help "foot the bill for high-risk mortgage borrowers w ...
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April 26, 2023
The tweet claimed a search of Disney World with cadaver dogs would "find some of the missing chi ...
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April 25, 2023
Fox News fired its popular host Tucker Carlson within a week of agreeing to pay Dominion Voting ...
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April 24, 2023
A tweet claimed "you must send a direct message to Elon Musk with a valid reason for your cancel ...
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April 23, 2023
Research indicates that human saliva has properties that can heal wounds faster, but it also con ...
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April 21, 2023
When last we checked, the "Star Trek" actor was still very much alive.
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April 20, 2023
Basketball Hall of Fame player Michael Jordan signed his first sneaker contract with Nike sports ...
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April 19, 2023 (Updated: April 20, 2023)
A monovalent vaccine aims to prevent one strain of a virus from infecting someone, whereas a biv ...
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April 18, 2023 (Updated: April 21, 2023)
Opinions were mixed on whether Elon Musk was making a sex joke or just thumbing his nose at the ...
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April 17, 2023
Blume, an author of young adult fiction, said her statement to a reporter for The Sunday Times w ...
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April 15, 2023
Some Parmesan cheeses (and other varieties) contain rennet, an enzyme traditionally taken from i ...
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April 14, 2023
A recurring, misleading claim about guns being banned at NRA annual meetings surfaced again in A ...
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April 14, 2023
The rumor surfaced amid a right-wing push to stop buying the beer after it partnered with Dylan ...
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April 14, 2023
In mid-April 2023, rumors of the death of television writer and anti-trans activist Graham Lineh ...
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April 13, 2023
On April 11, 2023, the U.S. president visited Belfast, Northern Ireland, where British Prime Min ...
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April 13, 2023
The wealth gap between households with the highest income and the bottom 50% of households in th ...
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April 12, 2023
Germany's Federal Office of Justice has reportedly started proceedings to investigate hate speec ...
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April 12, 2023
The FBI's Denver office and the Federal Communications Commission reissued warnings about "juice ...
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