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.
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July 12, 2018
In June 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced they were staffin ...
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July 9, 2018
Reports of a viral epidemic that supposedly killed 16 people in Louisville originated on a prank ...
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July 8, 2018
An Internet meme made misleading comparisons between presidential donations and the sizes of the ...
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July 5, 2018
Critics say the requirement forces migrant children to pledge allegiance to a country that separ ...
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July 1, 2018
The anachronistic use of the word "media" is just one reason to be skeptical of a quote often at ...
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June 27, 2018
In June 2018, an Arizona fire department warned local residents to check their pool noodles for ...
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June 26, 2018
According to a Facebook meme, a school of bluegills can completely dismantle a human body in les ...
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June 25, 2018 (Updated: June 27, 2018)
Fake news articles peddling the false claim that the Jackson family patriarch was dead followed ...
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June 22, 2018 (Updated: Aug. 19, 2018)
Mainstream news organizations were criticized for illustrating articles about family separation ...
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June 20, 2018 (Updated: June 21, 2018)
An anonymous Facebook post described what it was like to accompany sixteen "scared little souls" ...
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June 19, 2018
Nixon's former Secretary of State once said Trump could go down in history as "a very considerab ...
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June 15, 2018
Video footage released by North Korea's state television network shows Trump returning a militar ...
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June 14, 2018
The claim that a Trump-branded hotel opened in North Korea's capital less than 24 hours after th ...
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June 13, 2018
The always-provocative HBO talk show host stands accused of taking "Trump-hatred" to a whole new ...
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June 11, 2018
Spurious claims linking the celebrity chef's death to Hillary Clinton were published on a web si ...
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June 8, 2018
During a 1988 radio address, President Reagan railed against those calling for trade tariffs and ...
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June 7, 2018
In a 1998 article about the pitfalls of making predictions about technological progress, the Nob ...
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June 5, 2018
A viral video shows people wearing jewelry consisting of what appear to be live beetles decorate ...
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June 4, 2018
In keeping with his campaign promise to forgo a presidential salary, the White House announced i ...
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June 4, 2018 (Updated: Aug. 28, 2018)
Puerto Rico officials originally set the hurricane's death toll at 64, but a more recent assessm ...
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