David Emery
David Emery is a West Coast-based writer and editor with 25 years of experience fact-checking rumors, hoaxes, and contemporary legends, first as a freelancer for About.com (1997-2016), and as a staff writer and editor for Snopes since July 2016. His varied media career has also included stints as a television writer, contributing editor of a (pre-internet) satirical newspaper, and newsroom librarian.
Written by: David Emery
Feb. 11, 2019
A notorious junk news website added one more name to the list of 'Clinton body bags.'
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Feb. 9, 2019
Any resemblance between Nazis dressed in white and the Democratic women of the U.S. House of Rep ...
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Feb. 6, 2019
Wishing a thing true does not make it so -- especially when it's objectively measurable.
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Feb. 5, 2019
And where else could this happen but Berkeley, California?
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Jan. 31, 2019
All eyes were glued to President Trump's Twitter account for a response.
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Jan. 31, 2019
An online petition advocating the impeachment of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has garn ...
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Jan. 28, 2019
California has officially recognized a 'non-binary' gender designation since January 2018.
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Jan. 24, 2019
8chan and QAnon trolls worked diligently to push this smear campaign into the mainstream.
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Jan. 22, 2019
The statement echoed similar sentiments expressed by Kamala Harris, Chris Christie, and Supreme ...
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Jan. 16, 2019
A dubious website said the first two Muslim women elected to Congress wasted no time in trying t ...
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Jan. 15, 2019
Social media memes compared a defensive wall built along the northern border of New Amsterdam du ...
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Jan. 8, 2019
Apparently someone forgot to tell the rock star that Mexico is paying for the wall.
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Jan. 8, 2019 (Updated: Jan. 9, 2019)
Trump supporters raised the issue of past campaign finance violations to question Schumer's fitn ...
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Jan. 3, 2019
If true, this is our chance to see what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
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Jan. 2, 2019
Celebrity gossip websites reported in December 2018 that the 70-year-old singer had only days or ...
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Dec. 28, 2018
The 88-year-old Christian televangelist has never been a big fan of science.
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Dec. 28, 2018
Partisan websites have accused New Jersey officials of violating the Second Amendment and 'wagin ...
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Dec. 27, 2018
The deaths of two undocumented immigrant children detained by Border Patrol agents in December 2 ...
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Dec. 27, 2018
A tidbit of major 'breaking news' that somehow escaped the attention of the mainstream press.
Written by: David Emery
Dec. 26, 2018
'Mummified' fossils are those whose soft tissues escaped the normal process of decomposition bef ...
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