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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March 10, 2023
Twitter's CEO is a prolific, influential, and sometimes careless tweeter, which makes him a targ ...
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March 9, 2023
Beware of people passing off video game simulations as actual combat footage.
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March 6, 2023
Tastes change, what can we say?
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March 5, 2023
The claim originated with a Twitter account known for fabricating breaking news stories.
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March 3, 2023
Cronkite, a veteran war correspondent and broadcast journalist, was once regarded as "the most t ...
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March 1, 2023
Thanks to photographic evidence, we can confirm that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has five toes o ...
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Feb. 27, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a comic actor before he ran for political office.
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Feb. 24, 2023
A wire connection in the air fryers can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards, the company said.
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Feb. 24, 2023
A popular internet meme apparently convinced many social media users that Oreo cookies are made ...
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Feb. 23, 2023
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist," said one tweet, "but why did the CDC update their profile for v ...
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Feb. 19, 2023
Hint: Goldie Hawn was born in 1945; DJ Goldie was born 20 years later.
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Feb. 18, 2023
Some have nicknamed this creature the "pizza of the sea," but we don't recommend eating it.
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Feb. 13, 2023
Last we checked, a pentagram was a five-pointed star.
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Feb. 13, 2023
Legend has it Mozart so disliked a singer whose head bobbed up and down when she sang that he wr ...
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Jan. 29, 2023
Suspicions were aroused when it was claimed that said inspections would be conducted by one "Ric ...
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Jan. 27, 2023
Stranger musical collaborations have happened!
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Jan. 25, 2023
The quote first appeared in the Aug. 11, 1961, issue of LIFE magazine.
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Jan. 22, 2023
Photoshop works in mysterious ways.
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Jan. 21, 2023
We're happy to report that not all of the quotes attributed to Mark Twain on the internet are bogus.
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Jan. 21, 2023
No matter how you slice it, this obsolete form of "psychiatric treatment" was a horror.
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