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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

Did Pope Leo XIV call evangelist Franklin Graham 'Trump's puppet'?

Written by: Emery Winter

May 21, 2026

Countless AI-generated stories have falsely claimed the pope debated public figures about Trump ...

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Two images of Donald Trump side-by side. The left image is one where he is looking old and sad or pained behind a microphone, with what appears to be Boris Johnson's hair edited on top of his head. To the right is a photo of Trump walking through the wind, is hair blown up to reveal his hairline and his yellow tie swept off to the side by the wind.

Trump's windswept hair: Untangling fake images from real photos

Written by: Emery Winter

May 19, 2026

Photographers captured many photos of Donald Trump with unkempt hair before he left for a May 20 ...

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A close up of a large male bison in a field of tall, browning grass. The bison is brown with a furry head

Breaking down claim Trump admin is evicting bison from federal land

Written by: Emery Winter

May 18, 2026

The rumor is based on decision by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to revoke federal grazing p ...

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A close-up photo of a browning ground beef in a black skillet. The bottom of a wood stirring spoon rests atop the beef.

Copenhagen isn't restricting seniors' beef intake. The limit is only guidance

Written by: Emery Winter

May 18, 2026 (Updated: May 19, 2026)

Social media posts claim that Copenhagen's council is limiting elderly care residents to a small ...

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A side-by-side of photos of Christina Koch on the left and Barron Trump on the right. Koch is in a NASA jacket with her name on it and Trump is in a suit and tie.

Don't fall for story about Barron Trump telling Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch to 'sit down'

Written by: Emery Winter

May 15, 2026

Swap the names involved with any other two public figures and you might run into a Facebook post ...

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A grainy black-and-white photograph of what appears to be a flying saucer above some trees and a field. A town at lower elevation appears to be in the background

11 rumors we've probed about aliens, UFOs

Written by: Emery Winter

May 13, 2026

The Trump administration's Department of Defense released its first batch of files regarding "un ...

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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 (Updated: May 12, 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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