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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March 2, 2017
Dan Grilo was terminated from his job at a Chicago consulting firm after issuing a disparaging t ...
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Feb. 28, 2017
Palestinian-born activist Rasmea Yousef Odeh and her supporters maintain that her confession to ...
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Feb. 27, 2017
The last time a sitting president didn't attend the annual dinner was in 1981, when Ronald Reaga ...
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Feb. 24, 2017
Small Russian Federation flags with 'Trump' imprinted on them were distributed on the CPAC floor ...
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Feb. 23, 2017
Consumer groups say the doll, which has a microphone and uses Bluetooth to transmit audio record ...
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Feb. 22, 2017
Days after President Trump referenced a nonexistent instance of immigrant violence in Sweden, a ...
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Feb. 20, 2017
Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, who is also a registered nurse, joked that she introduced the tongue-in-c ...
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Feb. 19, 2017 (Updated: May 25, 2018)
H.J. Res. 69 nullifies previously imposed federal protections for bears, wolves, and other preda ...
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Feb. 16, 2017
The televangelist said during a 15 February 2017 broadcast that people who oppose President Trum ...
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Feb. 15, 2017
Spoiler alert: The dictionary definition of the word 'trumpery' employs such expressions as 'dec ...
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Feb. 13, 2017
Some observers claimed they saw elements of a 'Satanic ritual' in Lady Gaga's halftime performan ...
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Feb. 8, 2017
President Trump incorrectly told a group of county sheriffs in February 2017 that the U.S. murde ...
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Feb. 2, 2017
A meme contrasted disparate statements by GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Sena ...
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Feb. 1, 2017
Trump supporters claim an academic study shows proof of hundreds of thousands of illegitimate vo ...
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Jan. 31, 2017
Renee Wetzel, whose husband was killed by radical Islamic terrorists in 2015, posted a Facebook ...
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Jan. 30, 2017
CEO Howard Schultz said the company is doubling down on its commitment 'to welcome and seek oppo ...
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Jan. 28, 2017
In a December 2015 tweet, then-Indiana Governor Mike Pence rejected presidential candidate Donal ...
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Jan. 27, 2017
The esteemed British actor was diagnosed in 2015 with pancreatic cancer, which was thought to be ...
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Jan. 27, 2017
The star of the long-running '60s and '70s detective show 'Mannix' had been diagnosed with leukemia.
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Jan. 26, 2017
A State Department spokesman said the resignations of four career foreign service officers weren ...
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