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
June 1, 2018
A year after retracting the conspiracy-tainted story and vowing to investigate the matter furthe ...
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May 29, 2018
A "satirical" article that manages to malign Islam, New Zealanders, and sheep all in the same br ...
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May 24, 2018
If the Interior Department proposal is authorized, Obama-era regulations banning sport hunting p ...
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May 21, 2018
A notoriously unreliable web site spread the unsubstantiated claim that the cable news network w ...
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May 18, 2018
The former Facebook vice president supposedly advocates solving global problems by exterminating ...
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May 16, 2018
In the since-restored video, GOP primary candidate Michael Williams is seen promising to "fill t ...
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May 15, 2018
An Internet meme holds that the KKK touted its political power by marching en masse outside the ...
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May 7, 2018
Some have called the murder and dismemberment of two African-American men over a gun sale gone w ...
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April 23, 2018
The Vice President is rumored to have close ties with the Russian government via his brother, Ed ...
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April 18, 2018
Manuel Duran Ortega, a reporter for the Spanish-language news web site Memphis Noticias, was arr ...
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April 16, 2018
Conspiracy theory web sites reported that Clinton could be seen mutilating a child during a Sata ...
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April 13, 2018
Objections to questions about citizenship on 2020 census forms stem from fears that the data mig ...
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April 12, 2018
An evidence-free Internet meme says that tilapia, one of the most popular freshwater fish consum ...
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April 4, 2018
President Donald Trump has claimed the giant online retailing company is jeopardizing USPS's fin ...
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April 2, 2018
Despite the media's breathless coverage of this alleged social media "craze," most of the extant ...
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April 2, 2018
According to the Trump administration, the question about citizenship was removed from census fo ...
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March 29, 2018 (Updated: April 3, 2018)
Authorities in the UK say that anonymous mailings of fliers advocating violence against Muslims ...
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March 28, 2018
Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help f ...
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March 26, 2018
As hundreds of thousands of students and supporters took to the streets to protest gun violence, ...
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March 23, 2018
A shadowy Watergate-era figure who claims he had personal access to Richard Nixon says the presi ...
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