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
March 19, 2018 (Updated: April 3, 2018)
A Facebook video alleging that pinholes were found in bottled water caps morphed into rumors tha ...
Written by: David Emery
March 19, 2018
A satirical web site took accusations of Putin's involvement in the March 2018 poisoning of a fo ...
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March 17, 2018
A Justice Department decision made under Obama and implemented under Trump has garnered bipartis ...
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March 15, 2018
The accidental handgun firing in California was one of two such incidents at schools in the Unit ...
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March 14, 2018
The founder of a so-called "Church of Lucifer" launched in Quindío, Colombia in 2016 also claims ...
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March 8, 2018
Social media images stoked controversy and legal questions over the Trump Organization's apparen ...
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March 7, 2018
The billionaire investor and sometime Trump regulatory reform adviser insists he had no prior kn ...
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March 6, 2018 (Updated: March 8, 2018)
Suspended Florida middle school teacher Dayanna Volitich insists that the racially charged messa ...
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March 3, 2018
Web sites mischaracterized the governor's order instructing state police to disarm individuals d ...
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March 1, 2018
A fabricated article about the movie mogul's supposed self-inflicted death appeared on an irksom ...
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March 1, 2018
A new variant of a years-old rumor about a worker adding HIV-infected blood to foods or beverage ...
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Feb. 28, 2018
Viral warnings about "extreme hackers" stealing information via popular entertainment apps on Fa ...
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Feb. 27, 2018
Several web sites mischaracterized an October 2017 California law preventing school personnel fr ...
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Feb. 26, 2018
A law barring the open carry of loaded firearms was passed in 1967 with the support of the Natio ...
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Feb. 22, 2018
According to the first lady's spokesperson, widely shared reports that she demanded a White Hous ...
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Feb. 21, 2018 (Updated: April 22, 2018)
A years-old Internet rumor suggests the gun rights figurehead may not be mentally sound enough t ...
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Feb. 20, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 28, 2018)
There is no evidence to date that the confessed school shooter belongs to any organized hate gro ...
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Feb. 19, 2018
According to popular lore, an assortment of United States presidents from John Quincy Adams to H ...
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Feb. 16, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 19, 2018)
The difficulty of agreeing on a common definition of "school shooting" shows just how many diffe ...
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Feb. 13, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 14, 2018)
Far-right pundits went off the deep end after African-American artist Kehinde Wiley's portrait o ...
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