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Emery Winter

Emery Winter is a Snopes reporter from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. They graduated from Queens University of Charlotte with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in sports communications. They started their career working as a freelance esports reporter and fact-checking for VERIFY, TEGNA's national fact-checking platform, before joining the Snopes team in June 2025. In their free time, Emery enjoys playing video games, watching animated movies and television, cheering for bad sports teams, thinking about getting back into bowling and participating in many other nerdy hobbies.

A photo from behind of a man in jeans, a blue collared shirt, and white ball cap walking through a lane flanked on either side by servers in a data center.

11 claims about data centers we've investigated

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 15, 2026

As more data centers are built, more rumors about them need fact-checking.

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Photo of Amish family in horse-drawn buggy from the back. Appears to be a woman in black at front. Four other people in buggy appear to be a man, a young man or teenager, and two boys all wearing straw hats. One boy has turned his head to look in the direction of the camera. The back of the buggy has all kinds of hi-vis stickers and hazard symbols for road safety.

Claim NY Democrats are fining unvaccinated Amish children $2K per day distorts facts

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 14, 2026

The state fined three Amish schools for failing to comply with state law on student vaccinations.

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A close-up bust-up photo of Pete Hegseth wearing a suit and tie while speaking in front of a microphone. The background is a clear blue sky.

10 alleged Hegseth quotes, investigated

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 14, 2026

We compiled our coverage of what the Secretary of Defense has (and hasn't) said.

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Screenshot of AI-generated image meant to falsely depict Barack and Michelle Obama as men on a boat together, timestamped to JUL 19 1985. The image has a sepia filter over it designed to give it the quality of an older photograph. The Snopes fake image icon has been overlaid at the top right of the image.

Fake photo of Barack and Michelle Obama on boat was created using another AI image

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 12, 2026

It first appeared as a doctored image of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein on a boat before bein ...

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Photo of farmer in field where a flannel button-up and a green Oklahoma ball cap looking down and holding a red Holy Bible in his hand

Video doesn't show Arkansas farmers praying for 'more Mexicans.' Here's the truth

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 8, 2026

The clip spread online amid reports of U.S. farmers being squeezed by rising prices and trade wars.

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A photo of a plate with a small, pink meat that looks like thin strips held together

Are US stores selling 3D-printed meat?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 7, 2026

One company's product launch sparked a wave of concerned posts about U.S. shoppers being sold la ...

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A photo of Buzz Aldrin, with grey hair and a beard in his old age, holding a microphone to his mouth while sitting in a chair. An American flag is behind him and he's wearing a suit and tie.

Did Buzz Aldrin say, 'The moon is not what you think'?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 6, 2026

To find the truth, we examined YouTube videos spreading the claim.

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Screenshot of social media image of cat warning road sign. Sign is in a yellow diamond shape with three black cat silhouettes depicted jumping with arms splayed across it. Text written in Japanese roughly translates to, "Warning: Cats jumping out!" Behind the sign is a bush and what appears to be a residential home

Are there road signs in Japan warning drivers that cats may jump out into traffic?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 4, 2026

Japanese text on one of the signs roughly translates to, "Watch for Cats Crossing the Road."

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Screenshot from Oval Office event in which Trump made his troubled people comment. Trump is speaking and looking up towards a gathering of people to his right, which include Commerce Secretary Howard Lutwick, Export-Import Bank of the US Chairman John Jovanovic, and several political leaders from Iowa.

Did Trump say Iowans are 'really troubled people'?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 1, 2026

And if not, who was the president talking about?

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Screenshot of image from Facebook post. The usual moon, albeit larger than usual, appears with a white glowing ring around it in a grey sky. Just to its right and behind it is a brownish-colored moon that is perhaps a third of the size of the usual moon. The two moons appear to use different photos of the same moon, Earth's usual moon. A Snopes "false" icon has been placed at the top-left.

Don't expect to look up and see a '2-moon night' on Sept. 29, 2026

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 29, 2026

Posts about the alleged phenomenon referred to an asteroid that is not visible with an amateur t ...

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A photo of the exterior of the Kennedy Center, on which letters denote it as: "THE DONALD TRUMP AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS"

12 rumors about Trump renaming things, examined

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 29, 2026

From the Kennedy Center to the "Department of War," we've investigated many claims stemming from ...

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A photo of First Lady Melania Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and first lady of China Peng Liyuan turning away from a balcony and appearing to begin heading inside. Melania and Donald have severe frowns and are looking in the direction of the camera.

Is photo of Donald and Melania Trump frowning real?

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 25, 2026

The photo also includes Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, during their vis ...

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Barack Obama, in a suit and tie, speaking at a podium and in front of a backdrop of the White House logo, with the American flag and seal at either shoulder.

Did Obama say press is supposed to be skeptical during final news conference?

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 24, 2026

Trump's critics have compared his hostility toward the media with how the former president handl ...

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A zoomed-in photo of the CNN logo on a glass wall of CNN's booth in the White House press area. The lights are off in the booth; the photo was taken after Trump banned CNN journalists from the White House.

12 claims about CNN we've investigated

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 24, 2026

Trump's criticism and public scrutiny of the 24-hour cable news network have fueled online rumor ...

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Screenshot of an image posted by Facebook page claiming it depicts a chimpanzee saving a zookeeper. Image is divided vertically into two security camera screenshots timestamped a minute apart. In the top image, a chimpanzee can be seen tugging a man collapsed onto the ground. The chimpanzee is circled in red. In the bottom image, the chimpanzee is sitting at the gate or door to its caged habitat while the man is sitting up and three men are rushing to the man on the ground. One of the three men is carrying a first aid kit. The Snopes fake image icon has been overlaid over the top right of the image.

Don't go bananas over tale of chimp rescuing zookeeper

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 23, 2026

No chimpanzees are coming to the rescue of readers who fall for this AI-generated tale.

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12 AI-generated dog stories, fact-checked

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 20, 2026

These claims were all bark and no bite.

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Photo of House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking into a microphone at a podium. He is speaking looking to the viewer's left, while he gestures with his hands open and out.

Is current Congress most productive in 80 years, as Mike Johnson claimed? We checked the numbers

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 16, 2026

We compared the output of the ongoing 119th Congress to several previous years using a number of ...

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A side-by-side placing a high-resolution and low-resolution version of the same image next to one another. The image shows what appears to be Donald Trump in a white polo and khaki pants kissing a white woman with a blond hair tied into a bun wearing a white dress. The woman's back is to the camera. The pair is on a golf course, with the green and pin immediately behind them. There are leaves in the foreground, suggesting the image may have been taken by someone in the bushes and/or trees, as if sneaking around to get a photograph without the subjects' notice

Is image of Trump kissing Natalie Harp on golf course real?

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 15, 2026 (Updated: Sept. 18, 2026)

The higher-resolution version of the image displays multiple red flags indicating it is AI-gener ...

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A smoky, orange photo of Ground Zero on Sept. 13, 2001. The silhouettes of a few people are dwarfed by rubble. A few pieces of walls remain standing, but most of the site is demolished.

Was Trump at Ground Zero with group of workers days after 9/11, as he claimed?

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 11, 2026

The president has said he was at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center with a large group of wor ...

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A screenshot of pair of AI-generated images stacked vertically together, the top one showing a black bear carrying a raccoon to the back of a building and the bottom one of a black bear carrying a fox to the back of a very similar, but not exactly the same building. Snopes' red "fake image" icon appears in the top right.

Story of black bear taking wounded animals to wildlife center is too good to be true

Written by: Emery Winter

Sept. 9, 2026

According to the story, the black bear took a wounded raccoon and later a fox to a wildlife cent ...

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