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. 8, 2016
An Iraqi news agency reported that the Islamic State's central fatwa committee issued a decree p ...
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Oct. 7, 2016
Based on a single leaked e-mail, conspiracy theory web sites concocted an entire story about the ...
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Oct. 6, 2016
Several Virginia state troopers resigned as volunteer chaplains in 2008 because of a departmenta ...
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Oct. 5, 2016
A junk news web site falsely claimed in 2016 that Congress passed a law authorizing ordinary cit ...
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Oct. 5, 2016
An inspector general's report stated that $6 billion in U.S. State Dept. expenditures weren't pr ...
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Oct. 4, 2016
A misleading Internet report spread the false impression that Australia has instituted a policy ...
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Oct. 3, 2016 (Updated: June 19, 2018)
An all-but-forgotten '90s tabloid story accusing Bill Clinton of fathering a "love child" with a ...
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Oct. 1, 2016
Accusations that Hillary Clinton padded her own pockets by deducting charitable donations to the ...
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Oct. 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton has been criticized for proposing a 65% estate tax that would put family farms o ...
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Sept. 29, 2016
During the first 2016 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Democrat ...
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Sept. 27, 2016
Donald Trump and his campaign refused to acknowledge instances of his referring to global warmin ...
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Sept. 27, 2016
The Internet is abuzz over an impending astronomical event called a "black moon." What is it, an ...
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Sept. 27, 2016
Donald Trump repeatedly stated that he opposed the invasion of Iraq before it took place in 2003 ...
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Sept. 27, 2016
The Marine Corps Recruiting Command has announced they're considering replacing their 39-year-ol ...
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Sept. 26, 2016
A medical study purportedly showed that watching a scary movie can burn a significant number of ...
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Sept. 23, 2016
Questionable sources maintain that the plight of so-called "Irish slaves" in early America was w ...
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Sept. 20, 2016
A new academic study found that ownership of half of the estimated 265 million firearms in Ameri ...
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Sept. 20, 2016
Viral images show streets running red with bloody water in parts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, after hea ...
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Sept. 19, 2016
A 10-second clip from a 2014 speech by Hillary Clinton has been misrepresented as an instance of ...
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Sept. 17, 2016
Rygaard, who starred in the History Channel reality TV series "Ax Men," was killed in a three-ve ...
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