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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Sept. 14, 2023
Musk's Starlink satellite internet service became crucial to Ukraine's defense after the Russian ...
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Sept. 11, 2023
According to all available evidence, then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden was in Washington, D.C., on Sept. ...
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Sept. 7, 2023
The players' names were allegedly withheld for privacy.
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Sept. 6, 2023
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Aug. 25, 2023
You know you've hit the big time when you become fodder for internet satire.
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Aug. 25, 2023
This isn't the first time a 2016 video of a crowd in England celebrating a soccer victory has be ...
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Aug. 24, 2023 (Updated: Aug. 25, 2023)
A plane said to be carrying the leader of the Wagner Group mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, c ...
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Aug. 15, 2023
Conspiracy theorists claimed a 2016 episode of the animated series "predicted" the use of "DEW," ...
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Aug. 14, 2023
Conspiracy theorists used a 2018 video of electrical explosions in Louisiana to claim that Hawai ...
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Aug. 10, 2023
This wasn't the first time conspiracy theorists posited that mysterious "beams of light" or "las ...
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July 22, 2023
Nor did he say he was doing it to support Jason Aldean.
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July 22, 2023
Shelton allegedly dropped a lucrative deal to show support for Jason Aldean, whose music video " ...
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July 10, 2023
Exactly what the Threads logo symbolizes has been a bone of contention ever since the app was ro ...
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June 25, 2023
The rumor originated as a fictional story on the satirical website The Dunning-Kruger Times.
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May 30, 2023
A parody Twitter account pretending to publish statements by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ...
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May 30, 2023
A parody account fooled more than a few people on Twitter.
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May 29, 2023
The quote appeared in the headline of an article that contains no evidence that the former presi ...
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May 22, 2023
The monumental sculpture depicting four U.S. presidents was completed in 1941.
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May 21, 2023
Adolf Hitler misquotes are quite popular on social media.
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May 13, 2023
The source of this false claim, a website called The Dunning-Kruger Times, stipulates that "Ever ...
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