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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.

Close up photos from the bust-up of Franklin Graham, left, and Pope Leo XIV, right, speaking into microphones over a pale yellow background.

Don't believe rumor Pope Leo XIV called evangelist Franklin Graham 'Trump's puppet'

Written by: Emery Winter

May 8, 2026

The AI-generated posts followed a common pattern of fabricating shocking stories about famous pe ...

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A photo of a male adult bison and a female adult bison standing together in tall, pale green grasses. Trees full of bright yellow leaves sit in the background, contrasting the dark colors of the bison in front of them

Is Trump admin evicting bison from federal land? Unpacking government proposal

Written by: Emery Winter

May 8, 2026

A proposal to revoke permits allowing a conservation group's bison herd to graze on federal land ...

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Close up photo of facade of white-beige granite building with the U.S. flag and Australian flag displayed side-by-side.

Does photo prove Trump admin displayed Australian flag on White House office building for King Charles III visit?

Written by: Emery Winter

April 30, 2026

The image was from 2019, but there were some Australian flags on a street outside of the White H ...

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A photo of the Minnesota State Capitol building. The building is made of a white-to-beige brick and is domed, with a small, golden cap on top of the dome

Did Minnesota Senate Democrats oppose removing dead people from voter rolls? Here's the real story

Written by: Emery Winter

April 30, 2026

Just because a person is on Minnesota's registration system does not mean they are listed among ...

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Screenshot of video of plastic filling shoreline along beach shore. Plastic is so thick that water beneath it cannot be clearly seen. A "Miscaptioned" graphic has been at the top right of the image.

Does video show major water pollution in India?

Written by: Emery Winter

April 30, 2026

The footage actually shows a years-old video from another continent, said to depict one of the m ...

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Image of man claimed to be Cole Allen. He is wearing a navy blue sweater with the IDF emblem on it. He's sitting in a chair and holding a silver drink can, while his other hand is posed with two fingers up. He's wearing green-brown sweatpants. The background is a fairly barebones apartment with a few things scattered about

Does image show White House correspondents' dinner shooting suspect wearing IDF sweatshirt? What we know

Written by: Emery Winter

April 26, 2026

Many people shared the image as evidence the accused attacker had a connection to the Israeli mi ...

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Screenshot of tweet with AI-generated whale video. The video is paused on a frame of a baby humpback whale opening its mouth wide to a deluge of thick, pasty white milk pushing out of its mother. An icon in the upper right designates the image/video as fake.

Don't confuse fake video of whale calf nursing with the real thing

Written by: Emery Winter

April 26, 2026

Real video footage of humpback and blue whale calves nursing looks far less dramatic.

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Screenshot of X post of fabricated AOC quote. There is a picture of AOC's face and in front of her is the text: "Republicans are trying to rig elections by only allowing U.S. citizens to vote!" -Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Did AOC claim GOP is trying to rig elections by letting only citizens vote? Don't be fooled

Written by: Emery Winter

April 24, 2026

The New York Democrat did once speak about a Washington, D.C., measure to allow noncitizens to v ...

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AI-generated, black-and-white image of several shirtless boys sitting on a wooden bench in front of a wooden building with several windows. There is mud on the ground and they look underfed. Their hair is cut short, but not shaved.

Image of shirtless boys at Buchenwald concentration camp isn't real. We have proof

Written by: Emery Winter

April 24, 2026

Many real photos of the child prisoners who survived Buchenwald exist. This isn't one of them, a ...

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Photo of Trump squinting up and beyond camera. There's greenery in the background and a microphone held up towards him. His mouth is closed

Did Trump share post threatening to release 'Vatican files' that could 'bring down' Catholic Church?

Written by: Emery Winter

April 22, 2026

The claim circulated in the form of a screenshot purportedly showing a Truth Social post by Pres ...

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A photo of Archbishop Thomas Wenski, an older white man with white hair, beard, and moustache, speaking into a microphone on a lectern. Behind him is a backdrop featuring the Archdiocese of Miami name and logo

Did Trump cancel $11M grant to Catholic charity to 'punish' Pope Leo XIV? What we know

Written by: Emery Winter

April 20, 2026

The Trump administration is ending the Archdiocese of Miami's charity grant for sheltering and c ...

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Blurry screenshot of video showing small crowd at JD Vance TPUSA speaking event. On the ground are chairs set out on the arena floor so audience members can sit directly in front of the stage set in the middle of the arena. Most of these seats, but not all, are fall. Around the arena floor are thousands of traditional arena seats with a good view of the stage. Most of these are empty, and there may be just a few hundred at most sitting in them.

Video authentically shows sparse crowd for JD Vance at Turning Point USA event

Written by: Emery Winter

April 17, 2026

Videos, images and reporting from the event showed many empty seats at the event with Vance in A ...

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A photo of former President Joe Biden standing in the Oval Office for a photo with four Artemis II astronauts around him, two at either side. The crew includes a white woman, a black man, and two white men. One of the white men sports a Canadian flag on his sleeve.

Did Artemis II mission planning begin with Biden? We explored its roots

Written by: Emery Winter

April 16, 2026

The Artemis II mission fulfilled the original objective planned during Trump's first term and ha ...

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Bust-up photo of an older, white-haired Bob Seger speaking and smiling widely into a microphone on a lectern. The backdrop includes the "billboard" logo.

Posts claim Bob Seger is fighting cancer. We set the record straight

Written by: Emery Winter

April 14, 2026

A Facebook page dedicated to sharing false, AI-generated stories about the rock musician has dia ...

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An illustration making it appear as a photo is a part of a torn paper. The photo is of an opened door in the floor to some dark but clear water. There is a concrete wall and metal ladder rungs descending from the door into the water.

Open trapdoor in Epstein files is likely more mundane than posts suggest

Written by: Emery Winter

April 11, 2026

Social media users assigned nefarious uses for a door that most likely opened into a water colle ...

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A close up of the bottom-halves of a bunch of soldiers in camo and black boots marching beside each other

What to know about automatic US military draft registration planned by December 2026

Written by: Emery Winter

April 9, 2026 (Updated: April 10, 2026)

In the past, eligible men have had to self-register for the draft by law. A change will make it ...

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Side-by-side images, a real Artemis II moon photo on the left and a fake image to the right. The left photo is dominated by the far side of the moon. Above and to the moon's left is a crescent Earth. The right image is an AI-generated view of the moon out of a circular window, with the full Earth in view to the right and the sun to the right of that

Artemis II moon images: Separating fact from science fiction

Written by: Emery Winter

April 8, 2026

The astronauts of the Artemis II mission captured several stunning photographs of the moon, but ...

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A photo of Donald Trump speaking into a microphone while next to someone wearing an Easter bunny costume suit. The White House is behind him and green plants with white flowers are in front of him.

Bunnies, bombs and Biden: What Trump said during 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll

Written by: Emery Winter

April 8, 2026

The president talked about Kamala Harris' IQ, Joe Biden's autopen and his war with Iran while ch ...

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Portrait photo of Pope Leo wearing predominantly red, gold, and white in front of a stone backdrop

Did Pope Leo XIV say no one can use God to justify war?

Written by: Emery Winter

April 8, 2026

During his first Palm Sunday Mass as pope, Leo told those in attendance that God ignores the pra ...

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AI-generated image from Facebook post. It shows Stephen Colbert, with his wife next to him, cutting a red ribbon with red kitchen scissors. Behind and to his right is a statue of the couple with their names. Behind and to his left is an older white man with a green jacket and hat. At the back is a large building with a mostly glass entrance, with many people wearing suits standing in front of it and looing in the direction of the camera.

Tune out claim Stephen Colbert and his wife opened free hospital for homeless

Written by: Emery Winter

April 7, 2026

The story matches a template often repeated in AI-generated stories about celebrities opening fr ...

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