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 18, 2017
An April 2017 tweet in which Chelsea Clinton supposedly defended the cultural practice of "genit ...
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July 14, 2017
Fake news web sites reported that the former President Obama's elder daughter was terminated for ...
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July 13, 2017
Articles reporting that former FBI Director James Comey was handcuffed and taken into custody by ...
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July 13, 2017
Tall tales of "walking dead" corpses in Indonesia appear to have been inspired by the unusual fu ...
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July 11, 2017
Critics complain that Sinclair, the nation's largest owner of local television stations, require ...
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July 7, 2017
Fake news sites reported that the House minority leader's daughters were caught attempting to sm ...
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July 6, 2017
In which we check into some "fun facts" about Social Security from a Facebook meme saying the go ...
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June 27, 2017
The claim that Japan has announced plans to dump 920,000 tons of nuclear waste into the Pacific ...
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June 27, 2017
A fabricated report concerning a nine-foot-long bull shark allegedly found in Kentucky Lake orig ...
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June 26, 2017
Fake news sites reported that actor Johnny Depp, who publicly joked about assassinating Presiden ...
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June 23, 2017
The "Atlas Shrugged" author called government handouts "immoral," but there is evidence that she ...
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June 22, 2017
More commonly known as the lone star tick, this unnerving arachnid can transmit an illness with ...
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June 21, 2017
Hyperpartisan web sites mischaracterized a State Department cable alerting the U.S. Embassy in R ...
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June 19, 2017
A parent's Facebook post describes injuries allegedly sustained by her child while wearing a Pud ...
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June 19, 2017
As with so many aspects of Islam, some non-Muslims criticize "Sharia law" without really knowing ...
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June 15, 2017
Partisan web sites have attempted to link Scalise shooter James Hodgkinson to the civil rights w ...
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June 13, 2017
A piece inspired by the senator's antagonistic questioning of Trump appointee Russell Vought sa ...
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June 9, 2017
Tales of youngsters chained up as "alligator bait" in the deep South of the 18th and early 19th ...
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June 5, 2017
Pundits and conspiracy theorists claimed that CNN staged a demonstration in London involving Mus ...
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June 4, 2017
Reports that the first lady ordered Monsanto products removed from the White House after reading ...
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