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.
Written by: David Emery
Jan. 20, 2023 (Updated: Jan. 23, 2023)
Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film "The Shining" starred Jack Nicholson as the menacing Jack Torrance.
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Jan. 16, 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden once called himself a "gaffe machine," and the description is accurate.
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Jan. 15, 2023
For starters, it isn't even, strictly speaking, a human cell.
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Jan. 15, 2023
"We prefer to take our chance with cholera and the rest than be bullied into health," a mid-19th ...
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Jan. 14, 2023
For some reason, people like putting pithy sayings in Morgan Freeman's mouth. Is it because of h ...
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Jan. 13, 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, 20 years before Rep. George Santos was born.
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Jan. 10, 2023
In ancient Egyptian mythology, Osiris was the god of the dead and ruler of the underworld.
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Dec. 29, 2022
One can't help but wonder what the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who died in 1955, would say ab ...
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Dec. 28, 2022
Formerly banned Twitter influencer Andrew Tate tagged Thunberg in a tweet in which he bragged of ...
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Dec. 28, 2022
Twitter users shared a fake tweet about celebrating Christmas Eve by "putting migrants on a bus ...
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Dec. 27, 2022
Versions of what is probably Benjamin Franklin's most famous saying were in print years before h ...
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Dec. 23, 2022
A digitally edited photo purports to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sporting short ...
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Dec. 22, 2022
Another in a seemingly endless series of Facebook hoaxes falsely claims a celebrity has died.
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Dec. 18, 2022
A fake tweet compared "banning reporters I don't like" to journalists being murdered in other co ...
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Dec. 17, 2022
"Dear LA County," the request began. "I would like your approval if I can have a unicorn in my b ...
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Dec. 9, 2022
The Human Meat Project website appears to advocate cannibalism as the solution to climate change ...
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Dec. 5, 2022
Nothing gives a quotation more gravitas than a famous name attached to it.
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Dec. 3, 2022
It only takes a few seconds to overlay somebody's logo on an existing image and create a complet ...
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Nov. 28, 2022
Just as there are plenty of online deals to be had on Cyber Monday, there are plenty of online s ...
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Nov. 28, 2022
The parody headline was even shared — without disclaimer — by Elon Musk himself.
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