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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Jan. 25, 2017
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump 'continues to maintain that belief' ...
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Jan. 24, 2017
Immediately after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the Department of Housing and Urban De ...
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Jan. 21, 2017
The Department of Interior took action after a tweet was shared via the National Park Service ac ...
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Jan. 20, 2017
A Time magazine reporter erroneously tweeted that a bust of civil rights icon Martin Luther King ...
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Jan. 20, 2017
In 2014, two 12-year-old girls arrested for stabbing a schoolmate in Waukesha, Wisconsin told po ...
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Jan. 20, 2017
Ferrer, who was battling throat cancer, was the son of singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Fe ...
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Jan. 17, 2017
Governor Paul LePage sought to school Rep. John Lewis in African-American history after Lewis su ...
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Jan. 16, 2017
An oft-quoted statement attributed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. appears to have been paraphras ...
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Jan. 15, 2017
A racist jibe purportedly directed at civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis by Trump transition team ...
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Jan. 14, 2017
Major General Errol R. Schwartz will retire from his post at the exact moment Donald Trump is sw ...
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Jan. 13, 2017
Blatty's widow said the New York-born novelist succumbed to multiple myeloma, a form of blood ca ...
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Jan. 12, 2017
Reporters weren't allowed to examine stacks of files presented at a press conference by Donald T ...
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Jan. 11, 2017
Chicago, to name one city that enacted an "ugly law," didn't repeal its ordinance banning people ...
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Jan. 9, 2017
A fake news article posted on several unreliable web sites claimed actress Meryl Streep was fire ...
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Jan. 9, 2017
A fake news web site falsely claimed that actress-comedian Sherri Shepherd passed away of a hear ...
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Jan. 6, 2017
Based on a 'YXX' notation on his Selective Service record, the Internet has theorized that Donal ...
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Jan. 4, 2017
Donald Trump announced the appointment of thrice-fired former 'Apprentice' contestant Omarosa Ma ...
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Jan. 4, 2017
The meaning of the ornate design stamped on Oreo cookies is a riddle wrapped in an enigma betwee ...
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Dec. 29, 2016
Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis allegedly warned that when fascism comes to America it ...
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Dec. 23, 2016
The former co-chairman of Donald Trump's New York presidential campaign also said he hoped Presi ...
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