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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Oct. 31, 2016
An Internet joke circulating since the early 2000s holds that U.S. Secret Service agents and mil ...
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Oct. 27, 2016
Accounts conflict about how terrified Americans really were by Orson Welles' infamous 1938 "War ...
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Oct. 27, 2016
Unreliable web sites spun a news story about the Swedish Transport Administration nixing Christm ...
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Oct. 27, 2016
An article that quotes Vice President Joe Biden saying "lazy American women are to blame for the ...
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Oct. 24, 2016 (Updated: Nov. 16, 2017)
Allegations of a "quid pro quo" deal giving Russia ownership of one-fifth of U.S. uranium deposi ...
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Oct. 24, 2016
A London events booking company will offer a "BYOS" (Bring Your Own Semen) culinary class if, an ...
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Oct. 24, 2016
The outspoken '60s radical also enjoyed a long career as a mainstream politician and author, and ...
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Oct. 23, 2016
The claim that Reagan won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide despite trailing well be ...
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Oct. 22, 2016
A story that Donald Trump personally sent out an airplane to transport hundreds of stranded U.S. ...
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Oct. 18, 2016
We investigate the claim that more U.S. embassy attacks, with more fatalities, occurred under Ge ...
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Oct. 18, 2016
Taxpayers pick up part of the tab when a President makes campaign trips on Air Force One, but wi ...
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Oct. 18, 2016
Anti-Trump super PAC The Nuisance Committee erected an Arabic-language billboard attributing the ...
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Oct. 17, 2016
The Trump/Pence campaign delivered $29,000 in food and supplies to Hurricane Matthew victims in ...
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Oct. 15, 2016
Contrary to partisan reports, a leaked May 2016 e-mail exchange between DNC staffers does not re ...
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Oct. 15, 2016
One version of a famous quote about those who count the votes determining the outcome of an elec ...
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Oct. 13, 2016
A viral quote attributed to former LDS Church President and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T ...
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Oct. 11, 2016
Former National Endowment for the Arts chairman Bill Ivey says a leaked e-mail to Clinton deputy ...
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Oct. 10, 2016
Some 22 million official White House e-mails, the majority of which were sent and received via p ...
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Oct. 10, 2016
A rumor circulating among conspiracy theorists holds that the U.S. repainted some of its fighter ...
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Oct. 9, 2016
Fake news articles inaccurately credited Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Colombian singer Shaki ...
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