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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.

Illustrative photo of Celsius Arctic Blast energy drink cans on ice

Are energy drinks like Alani Nu Witch's Brew linked to stroke-like symptoms? What we know

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 21, 2025

Social media posts claim consumers of Alani Nu's Witch's Brew energy drink have suffered stroke- ...

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Artistic representation of treasury check reading "ECONOMIC STIMULUS CHECKS" over several $100 bills and an American flag

Claim about new $1,390 stimulus checks fantasy

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 19, 2025

A persistent rumor that the IRS would distribute stimulus checks for $1,390 in summer 2025 was f ...

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Screenshot of Trader Joe's gift basket photo with receipt in foreground. Even though top of receipt says "Trader Joe's", bottom of receipt says "Thank you for shopping at Aldi"

Don't believe posts claiming Trader Joe's is offering $12 gift baskets for filling out online form

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 17, 2025

Trader Joe's hasn't offered gift baskets to anyone for filling out an online form.

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Two photos stacked one above the other of a shirtless man in the water hugging around and pushing a large black bear

Photos claiming to show Russian man saving drowning bear in Lake Tahoe tell a different story

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 16, 2025

Social media posts credited an Ivan Stepanov with rescuing a drowning bear in Lake Tahoe. In rea ...

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AT&T customers could get up to $7,500 from data breach settlement. Here's how to claim it

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 15, 2025

People who can show documentation they lost money because of two separate AT&T data breaches may ...

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1700s artwork of Cinderella sitting by the kitchen fire

Breaking down claim early Cinderella versions called her 'Cinder-sl**'

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 15, 2025

A single translation well after the Victorian-era ended included the insult, but it wasn't exact ...

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Screenshot of fake news report TikTok video -- "breaking news" at top of image followed by text: "Starting from 4 a.m., Trump ordered the complete clearance of homeless people in 50 states." Frame of park police below.

Clearing up the facts on video that said Trump ordered the clearance of homeless people nationwide

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 14, 2025

The alleged video news report was shared widely on social media.

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Close up of a rabbit with the SPV virus. It has some small black growths on its head that look like horns

'Frankenstein' rabbits with horns or tentacles on faces are real — but there's nothing to fear

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 13, 2025

Rumors spread online that rabbits infected with a virus that creates a tentacle-like growth on t ...

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Screenshot of image from Forest Hunts post. Has generic picture of scientist injecting model knee joint with a syringe. Text makes claim that Germany developed a gel that regrows joint cartilage without surgery

German scientists developed gel to help heal damaged joint cartilage?

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 13, 2025

Social media posts exaggerated a gel treatment for osteoarthritis on the market since 2013 but p ...

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Image of woman wearing a pink hijab posing next to a wood wall with a swastika in blue graffiti.

Posts claim woman in photo posing next to swastika is Zohran Mamdani's senior adviser or Linda Sarsour

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 12, 2025

Internet users falsely claimed a photo of a woman in hijab posing next to swastika graffiti was ...

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Screenshot of AI-generated image of what appears to be a village of moss-covered houses. The entrances of the houses and features of the environment are warped

Image really shows moss-covered Norwegian houses made by Vikings?

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 9, 2025

The pictures, though stunning, were made by AI.

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Picture of someone holding a Trader Joe's receipt. Behind the receipt is a basket of Trader Joe's products

Beware of posts claiming Trader Joe's offers $12 gift baskets for filling out online form

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 8, 2025

"We don't want anyone impersonating us and disappointing our customers, and we do everything we ...

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Screenshot of AI-generated White House ballroom rendering. The ballroom appears to be slightly bigger than the main building, which it is affixed to the left of,  and is slightly off-color

Rumored rendering of Trump's planned White House ballroom isn't what it seems

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 7, 2025

An AI-generated image has been falsely shared as an official rendering of the project.

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Close up of the top part of the Constitution document

Sections of Constitution were missing from government website. Here's context

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 6, 2025 (Updated: Aug. 7, 2025)

One of the sections that was removed from the U.S. Constitution website referenced the writ of h ...

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Uganda's flag and Chick-fil-A's logo overlaid next to each other on top of a transparent LGBTQ+ Progress Pride flag

Clarifying claim about Ugandan anti-gay bill and Chick-fil-A

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 6, 2025

Social media posts about an anti-LGBTQ+ law in Uganda and the fast-food chain make claims that a ...

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Picture of Donald Trump walking to his golf cart. In the background and slightly blurred are three wind turbines peeking above small hills

Scotland approved new wind farm after Trump's visit, but not exactly off the coast from his golf course

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 5, 2025

Scotland's decision to OK more than 300 wind turbines in July 2025 seems to be unrelated to Trum ...

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Close up of NASA astronaut Mike Fincke in a spacesuit and helmet with the visor lifted

Claim that NASA astronauts get $66K starting salary doesn't add up

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 3, 2025

The figure was from 2019, and was a minimum as opposed to the starting salary. By 2025, NASA ast ...

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The CBS News logo stretched across the front of a building immediately above a Skechers store

Here's what to know about agreement for CBS to accept 'bias monitor'

Written by: Emery Winter

Aug. 1, 2025

A deal between the FCC and its parent company means bias complaints at CBS will be handled by an ...

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Screenshot of Instagram post about comet being an alien ship. Shows a generic asteroid behind a screengrab from a radio telescope and above text saying the comet is "most likely" an alien ship

Probing claim that interstellar object is 'most likely' an alien ship heading towards Earth

Written by: Emery Winter

July 31, 2025

3I/ATLAS is just the third recorded interstellar object to enter the solar system. However, the ...

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Close up of Ghislaine Maxwell smiling

Ghislaine Maxwell was moved from NY to Florida prison in 2022, not 2025

Written by: Emery Winter

July 30, 2025 (Updated: Aug. 1, 2025)

The convicted sex offender was moved from Brooklyn detention center to the FCI Tallahassee priso ...

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