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
Sept. 25, 2017
Until 1966, the official logo of the Alabama Democratic Party featured a crowing rooster and a b ...
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Sept. 21, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2017)
Residents of Everglades City, Florida remain on notice to boil drinking water due to fecal conta ...
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Sept. 13, 2017
An actual television ad that pranked European viewers with a shock ending in 2005 has since been ...
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Sept. 5, 2017
We look into the burning (at least for some) question of whether members of the National German ...
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Sept. 4, 2017
A statement by the Nation of Islam leader declaring Jesus Christ his "redeemer" was widely misin ...
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Sept. 1, 2017
Amidst devastating flooding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, fake Twitter accounts were used to ...
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Aug. 23, 2017
On the question of erecting Civil War monuments, the former Confederate general wrote that he th ...
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Aug. 19, 2017
An 18 August 2017 tweet from Jason Kessler's Twitter account described slain counter-protester H ...
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Aug. 17, 2017
In the aftermath of the violence-plagued Charlottesville rally, former white nationalist allies ...
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Aug. 16, 2017 (Updated: Aug. 17, 2017)
Fake news web sites floated an incoherent story alleging that a white supremacist arrested for v ...
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Aug. 15, 2017
Various right-leaning sources immediately — and inaccurately — identified the driver of the vehi ...
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Aug. 14, 2017
The World War II-era short film "Don't Be a Sucker" cited Nazi propaganda as an example of how h ...
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Aug. 10, 2017
For Washington, D.C. business owner Jeff Gero it was just another day — until he saw a tweet ide ...
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Aug. 8, 2017
Online reports of the discovery by Russian medical researchers of a "cure" or "vaccine" for homo ...
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Aug. 7, 2017
Both pop singers were targeted by fake news stories reporting that they had exposed a pedophile ...
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Aug. 4, 2017
Early 1950s efforts to prepare Americans for nuclear war included the erection of signs giving a ...
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Aug. 1, 2017
Facebook's artificial intelligence scientists were purportedly dismayed when the bots they creat ...
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July 31, 2017
A hyperpartisan web site offered up a patchwork of half-truths and hyperbole to sow fear and hat ...
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July 26, 2017
Online conspiracy theorists claim Snapchat's image filter feature called "Lenses" is covertly am ...
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July 19, 2017
Unreliable web sites stoked partisan rancor by attributing a fake, self-aggrandizing quote to fo ...
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