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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Dec. 3, 2016
An article speculated — based on the church they attend — that HGTV's 'Fixer Upper' stars Chip a ...
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Dec. 2, 2016
Supposedly flat broke and suicidal at 65, KFC's Colonel Sanders parlayed his Kentucky-fried chic ...
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Nov. 30, 2016
Sen. Tim Kaine's initial tweet about the Ohio State University attack was based on erroneous ear ...
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Nov. 29, 2016
Learn why generations of young TV viewers grew up perplexed by the odd behavior of a character n ...
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Nov. 27, 2016 (Updated: Feb. 4, 2018)
Soros was all of 13 years old when the Nazis occupied Hungary, his home country, and 14 when Wor ...
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Nov. 25, 2016
The leader of Cuba's communist revolution and ruler of the island nation for more than 50 years ...
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Nov. 25, 2016
The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education inspired an Internet meme detailing her ...
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Nov. 23, 2016
Video clips of a meeting of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist/alt-right group, ...
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Nov. 22, 2016
A Bloomberg News investigation found that tests of store-brand aloe vera gel from CVS, Wal-Mart, ...
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Nov. 21, 2016
A passage attributed to Theodore Roosevelt holds that it is unpatriotic, servile, and morally tr ...
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Nov. 21, 2016
According to its creators, the controversial billboard in Pearl, Mississippi was intended to pro ...
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Nov. 21, 2016
A major earthquake has struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, Japan, resulting in the iss ...
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Nov. 21, 2016
The Broadway musical "Hamilton," which uses ethnically diverse actors to portray America's found ...
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Nov. 20, 2016
The family of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan says passengers booed when the crew announced ...
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Nov. 19, 2016
Vice President-elect Mike Pence's night out at the theater took an unexpected turn when he was b ...
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Nov. 18, 2016
China's golden pheasant sports a sweeping orange crest not unlike the president-elect's; they al ...
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Nov. 18, 2016
We are obliged to report that the photo of Kid Rock wearing a profanity-laced electoral map T-sh ...
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Nov. 18, 2016
Media reports say Masters, who suffered from depression, was found dead in her Peru hotel room o ...
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Nov. 17, 2016
A controversial idea that Donald Trump discussed (and partially walked back) during the 2016 pre ...
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Nov. 16, 2016
Zero evidence has been put forth to support the widely parroted claim that 3 million "illegal al ...
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