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.
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 11, 2023
The TikTok star has said Tampax sent them tampons in April 2022 to give to women who needed them.
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 11, 2023
Plans were purportedly in the works as of mid-April 2023, though the president hadn't made any o ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 10, 2023
A Twitter user shared what they described as a "new logo" showing Twitter's bird with cartoonish ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 7, 2023
Rebekah Jones' 13-year-old son was arrested on April 5, 2023, on suspicion of making online "ter ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 7, 2023
The company's been in the news a lot of late.
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 6, 2023
The Legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's veto on legislation banning trans girls and women fr ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 5, 2023
He placed ads in four newspapers in 1989 demanding reinstatement of the death penalty after a wo ...
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April 4, 2023
The video actually showed President Joe Biden at a news conference on Nov. 9, 2022, the day afte ...
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April 4, 2023
The photo supposedly showed the former president leading a crowd of supporters through the stree ...
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April 3, 2023
A tweet claiming the fee was increased attracted over 1.6 million views and over 20,000 likes as ...
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April 2, 2023
Yes and no. It depends on what yardstick we use.
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
April 1, 2023
A tweet with the claim attracted over 26,000 likes and over 821,000 views as of this writing.
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
March 31, 2023
In the wake of news of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s indictment, social media were rife w ...
Written by: Damakant Jayshi
March 30, 2023
A viral TikTok video with the claim circulated in the days after TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifi ...
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