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
Nov. 1, 2018
Despite what was claimed in a Facebook meme, the enactment of the 'Save Our Oceans Act' in Octob ...
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Oct. 30, 2018
The photograph is genuine, but the story behind it is significantly more complicated than it may ...
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Oct. 22, 2018
A partisan meme termed the senator's nearly tenfold increase in net worth over six years on a sa ...
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Oct. 19, 2018
Is it true that extraneous letters were dropped from certain words in American English because n ...
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Oct. 16, 2018
A neo-Nazi website claimed credit for the fliers, which were found posted at college campuses an ...
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Oct. 13, 2018
Some said the Craigslist ad proved Trump has to pay people to attend his rallies, while others d ...
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Oct. 10, 2018
Junk news sites published a spurious report saying Swift was photographed with the controversial ...
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Oct. 8, 2018
Unreliable sources claimed Pelosi admitted on video that Democrats use such a tactic, but in rea ...
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Oct. 5, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 29, 2018)
Several GoFundMe accounts were opened in the Supreme Court nominee's name during his Senate conf ...
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Oct. 2, 2018
Junk news websites used an unrelated image from 2016 to illustrate a story falsely claiming that ...
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Oct. 1, 2018
Conspiracy theorists claim they've found 'three degrees of separation' between fired FBI agent P ...
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Sept. 25, 2018
In a 2017 speech, Trump referred to Kenneth Mapp, governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, as the te ...
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Sept. 24, 2018
The Minneapolis man suffered from type 1 diabetes and had begun rationing his insulin because he ...
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Sept. 20, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 21, 2018)
An old conspiracy theory about the 1993 suicide of Clinton associate Vincent Foster, whose death ...
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Sept. 14, 2018
Clinton stoked controversy during a town hall radio broadcast by framing her stance in support o ...
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Sept. 13, 2018
During a 2016 radio interview, Anne Graham Lotz said 'God allows bad things to happen' like the ...
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Sept. 10, 2018
Junk news sites reported that the currently unsigned NFL quarterback lost his endorsement deal a ...
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Sept. 6, 2018
An Internet meme characterized the planned departure of the Supreme Court nominee's daughters fr ...
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Sept. 5, 2018
Some readers were taken in by a satirical website's story that Democrats wanted the Supreme Cour ...
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Sept. 4, 2018
A junk news website reported that the government canceled a nonexistent contract with Nike becau ...
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