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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April 28, 2023
No sooner had George Soros' son Alexander posted a photo of himself with Biden on Facebook than ...
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April 24, 2023
If former Rep. Liz Cheney had been sentenced to death, odds are you wouldn't have read it first ...
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April 24, 2023
The story originated with a website that describes its content as "humor, parody, and satire."
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April 22, 2023
Fashions change.
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April 16, 2023
Images created by artificial intelligence (AI) software often circulate without disclaimers to s ...
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April 9, 2023
The quote has been ascribed to both Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. It's possible that n ...
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April 8, 2023
When your source of information says "Everything on this website is fiction," you might want to ...
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March 27, 2023
An old, tired internet hoax was reborn on social media after the March 27, 2023, Nashville schoo ...
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March 26, 2023
We will soon be drowning in AI-generated deepfake images.
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March 25, 2023
This appears to be an urban legend of recent origin.
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March 23, 2023
Video of a 2012 incident in which a school bus driver suffered a heart attack was repurposed 11 ...
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March 20, 2023
Sometimes it feels as though the internet is one gigantic tabloid gossip sheet.
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March 19, 2023
What, you don't know a bloody-belly comb jelly when you see one? Neither did we.
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March 16, 2023
One of the soap brand's current slogans is "Together we can end appearance hate."
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March 15, 2023
"It is a ride to the death."
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March 14, 2023
Digitally editing photographs is one way people try to put words in celebrities' mouths.
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March 13, 2023
If you were born on a Leap Day and find that aggravating, imagine being born on a day that then ...
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March 12, 2023
The writers of "The Simpsons" are brilliant, but they did not foresee the March 2023 Silicon Val ...
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March 11, 2023
Every now and then the internet gets something right.
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March 10, 2023
Epps was captured on video urging attendees of Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally to march on the Ca ...
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