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
Dec. 19, 2018
If true, the profligate impregnator faces a world record child support bill.
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Dec. 18, 2018
The ink was barely dry on Marshall's obituary when a story made the rounds claiming the 'Laverne ...
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Dec. 18, 2018
The Soviet leader allegedly boasted that Americans would suddenly waken to find they lived under ...
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Dec. 12, 2018
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study compared the tax revenues generated by refu ...
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Dec. 11, 2018
A UK humor website spoofed May's last-minute postponement of a parliamentary vote on Brexit.
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Dec. 11, 2018
Contrary to what's claimed on various junk news websites, the pop songstress has not sung the pr ...
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Dec. 10, 2018
Conspiracy theorists claim President Kennedy issued the warning seven days before he was assassi ...
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Dec. 7, 2018
Apparently Bill O'Reilly forgot to tell them he won the War on Christmas in 2006.
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Dec. 6, 2018
Not so much a cautionary tale as a nightmarish scenario made up out of whole cloth.
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Dec. 4, 2018
The forty-first President of the United States allegedly uttered the statement in response to a ...
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Nov. 30, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 26, 2023)
Karen White, a transgender woman, confessed not only to abusing fellow inmates in a West Yorkshi ...
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Nov. 28, 2018
A morbid tale of a sexual experiment gone fatally awry.
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Nov. 28, 2018
In an interview just before the 2016 presidential election, the then-90-year-old comic actor lev ...
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Nov. 27, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2019)
The late Maddox Hyde of Pennsylvania did issue a request for cards after doctors said his cancer ...
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Nov. 26, 2018
Recycled social media posts from 2013 report that the young woman who supposedly went missing wa ...
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Nov. 18, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 21, 2018)
Conspiracy theorists pointed to a medical examiner's report saying Best died of 'multiple blunt ...
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Nov. 16, 2018
Obama's relationship with Fox News was tempestuous to say the least, but none of the network's c ...
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Nov. 12, 2018
A caller on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Internet talk show claimed he overheard poll workers ...
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Nov. 9, 2018
In response to Trump's tweet claiming that he has no such financial interests, social media user ...
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Nov. 6, 2018
Social media users speculated that something nefarious was behind apparent changes in the displa ...
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