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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Feb. 13, 2018
Artist Kehinde Wiley is best known for reimagining classical heroic paintings using black men an ...
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Feb. 12, 2018
The 38-year-old's death from complications of influenza became an internet cause célèbre after i ...
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Feb. 9, 2018
The white supremacist group made frequent use of the slogan more recently embraced by President ...
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Feb. 7, 2018
Lawmakers on House committees investigating Uranium One say Justice Department officials cast do ...
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Feb. 6, 2018 (Updated: March 21, 2018)
White supremacist Arthur Jones was the only Republican candidate for the Third Congressional Dis ...
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Feb. 6, 2018
An Internet meme credited the Black Panther Party with inventing Women, Infants, and Children, a ...
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Feb. 2, 2018
There is no evidence that the billionaire supporter of progressive causes ever uttered such a re ...
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Feb. 1, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 28, 2018)
Unreliable web sites misrepresented the substance of the American Civil Liberties Union's critic ...
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Feb. 1, 2018
President Trump pledged in his 2018 State of the Union address to end "chain migration," but wha ...
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Jan. 31, 2018
The answer to the age-old question "Can peacocks fly?" is yes — but not on United Airlines.
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Jan. 30, 2018
The city of Melbourne tweeted that they do not endorse the sign, noting in a droll aside that th ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
A well-known purveyor of fake news spread the fabricated claim that President Trump called out G ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
The State Department allowed a 29 January 2018 deadline to pass without imposing new sanctions a ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
The Frenchman who would become known as the world's greatest pantomime artist helped smuggle Jew ...
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Jan. 29, 2018
Sitting senators tweeted images of the misspelled tickets on 29 January 2018.
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Jan. 27, 2018
Critics say the "Straws Upon Request" legislation introduced in the state assembly "criminalizes ...
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Jan. 26, 2018
Rumors of a ban on the Fox News Channel in Australia and New Zealand seem to have materialized o ...
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Jan. 25, 2018
An Internet meme cites extremely dubious statistics to convince readers that the young undocumen ...
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Jan. 23, 2018
“I will not allow incubators of dangerous viruses to come anywhere near my son,” the First Lady ...
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Jan. 22, 2018
An outdated controversy about McDonald's use of beef treated with ammonium hydroxide resurfaced ...
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