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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.

Screenshot of Caitlin Clark image wearing t-shirt falsely edited to say "I DESERVE NBA MONEY"

Caitlin Clark wore 'I deserve NBA money' shirt at 2025 WNBA All-Star Game?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 23, 2025

In reality, Clark's T-shirt was identical to those worn by other players and read: "Pay us what ...

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Screenshot of Bernice King tweet where she wrote "Now, do the Epstein Files" over a black and white photo of MLK Jr.

Bernice King told Trump to release Epstein files?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 22, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter posted, "Now, do the Epstein files," on X after the Trump admi ...

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Photo of a single bison crossing a road. Mountains in the background

Video shows bison leaving Yellowstone in 'mass exodus'?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 21, 2025 (Updated: July 23, 2025)

The same person was the source of rumors that bears and mountain lions were leaving the national ...

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A harvest mouse peeking out through a hole inside of a tennis ball

Wimbledon serves up tennis balls as new homes for threatened harvest mice?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 19, 2025

The tournament has previously donated tennis balls to conservation groups that turn them into ho ...

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A screenshot of map used in Facebook post. Map is of U.S. Pacific coast, with red rings pinging the location of Axial Seamount

Undersea volcano off Oregon coast could erupt in 2025, but isn't a threat to people

Written by: Emery Winter

July 18, 2025

The U.S. Geological Survey said in May 2025 that the volcano is "exciting, not hazardous."

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Screenshot of video containing AI-generated clips supposedly of Texas floods. Video text says: "Texas - 13.07.2025. No sirens. No alerts. Just silence... then chaos."

Beware of AI-generated clips shared as footage of Texas floods

Written by: Emery Winter

July 17, 2025

People on social media are sharing dramatic videos of rushing flood waters as if they're footage ...

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Screenshot of fallstreak cloud video on top of a transparent background of the same image

Real video of rare 'fallstreak hole' cloud formation?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 17, 2025

Fallstreak holes, also called cavum, sometimes occur when airplanes fly through certain clouds h ...

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Screenshot of viral artificial tree post. Shows tuning fork shaped structures in the desert. Text says Columbia University developed artificial tree that passively removes CO2 from the atmosphere 1,000 times faster than real trees

Columbia University developed artificial trees designed to clean air? What to know

Written by: Emery Winter

July 16, 2025

Viral posts claimed scientists developed "artificial trees" to clean the air 1,000 times more ef ...

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Picture of a mountain lion leaping between two rocks

Mountain lions are not leaving Yellowstone for Utah, despite popular video's claim

Written by: Emery Winter

July 15, 2025

The same person also posted an out-of-context video claiming bears were leaving the iconic natio ...

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Black and white photo of bear sitting next to and looking up at car from the 50s.

Video claiming hundreds of grizzly bears left Yellowstone National Park isn't what it seems

Written by: Emery Winter

July 14, 2025

A video of bears in a South Dakota-based wildlife park was misleadingly shared as a video of bea ...

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Screenshot of meme showing map of South America at night, edited to make Venezuela look starkly darker than the rest of the continent

Is Venezuela darker at night than rest of South America, as meme claims?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 14, 2025

Neither Venezuela's borders nor its "socialism" are distinctly visible from space.

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Black-and-white image of Robin Williams with his hands folded. Overlaid text reads: "People don't fake depression... they fake being okay. Remember that. Be kind."

Did Robin Williams say, 'People don't fake depression. They fake being okay'?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 13, 2025

There's no evidence Williams said the quote, which began circulating alongside his name over hal ...

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Images of Trump and a dishwasher next to each and placed over a rainy background

Debunking claim Trump ranted about washing machines during statement about July 2025 Texas floods

Written by: Emery Winter

July 11, 2025

A viral X post falsely associated a year-old Trump quote from a campaign speech with catastrophi ...

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Screenshot of edited photo of Mr. Rogers wearing a Bob Ross t-shirt and Steve Irwin.

Does photo show Mr. Rogers with Steve Irwin while wearing Bob Ross shirt?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 11, 2025

The image is a composite of separate photos of Rogers and Irwin.

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Screenshot of edited image of presenter in front of lava-covered weather map, yellow background

No, German news program didn't broadcast 'fiery' weather map

Written by: Emery Winter

July 10, 2025

Posts claimed a German news show displayed the map to ring the alarm on climate change.

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Screenshot of AI-generated image of Peyton Manning hugging a black woman in front of a suburban home

Peyton Manning helped waitress who lost job for giving him free coffee?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 9, 2025

Another post goes viral from a Facebook page seemingly dedicated to posting AI images with made- ...

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Image of Carl Sagan next to a quote written over a black background. The quote says: "The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."

Did Carl Sagan write, 'The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas'?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 9, 2025

Sagan, a scientist and educator known for championing rationalism, died in 1996.

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A portrait of Bubba Wallace superimposed in front of a white racing flag

Bubba Wallace said NASCAR should eliminate white flag?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 4, 2025

Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR's top circuit, called for NASCAR to ban Confederate fla ...

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Photo shows real German weather map covered in lava?

Written by: Emery Winter

July 4, 2025

This was not the first time weather maps on German news program "Tagesthemen" were edited by soc ...

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