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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 of the Kansas State Capitol building with a textured transgender flag overlaid behind it

Kansas is revoking many trans people's driver's licenses due to new law

Written by: Emery Winter

March 4, 2026

The legislation was written so that trans people's licenses are revoked immediately without a gr ...

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An inauthentic image of Trump and Epstein in what appears to be a bathhouse. Trump has aviator sunglasses and a white towel, but is otherwise naked. Epstein appears to also be naked. What appears to be a teenage girl is washing Trump's foot.

Don't fall for alleged image of Trump and Epstein getting feet washed by girl

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 27, 2026

The image was created by Alison Jackson, an artist who creates "convincingly realistic photographs."

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A screenshot of Pam Bondi at a podium with a satirical Fox News chyron that says: "Bondi: 'We will visit each house we know watched 'Jeopardy' instead of the State of the Union.'"

Did Bondi say feds will visit households that watched 'Jeopardy!' over State of the Union?

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 26, 2026

We'll take "things that never happened" for $1,000, Ken.

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AI-generated image showing Willie Nelson at left and a woman at right singing into a microphone. Text on the image says "No One Was Ready"

Posts claim Willie Nelson helped woman named Sarah Mitchell become country singer. Block out the noise

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 26, 2026

The tale was described as a "dramatized narrative" in which the events were "fictionalized for s ...

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A pair of black-and-white AI-generated images of a nun feeding Nazis soup, overlaid atop a sepia image of the same. The B&W images are a vertical pair. The bottom black and white image curiously includes Hitler himself at the table with the bowl of soup next to him.

Story about Canadian WWII nun poisoning Nazis with soup can be laid to rest

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 26, 2026

We found numerous signs the rumor was AI-generated.

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AI-generated image of several buildings in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on fire. One of the buildings is the Our Lady of Guadalupe church. Several buildings are distorted and merged into each other.

Don't fall for AI-generated image of Puerto Vallarta after cartel attacks

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 24, 2026

The image depicted one of the Mexican city's most iconic landmarks, the Our Lady of Guadalupe Ch ...

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An AI-generated image of a KFC restaurant shaped like one of its buckets taken from the outside. It sits abandoned in an empty parking lot with little in the background. Windows are broken and/or partially boarded up.

Ditch images showing abandoned KFC bucket-shaped restaurant

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 23, 2026

Posts asked if you would visit the establishment. We would — if it was real.

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A carnival float shows a caricature of Donald Trump dancing provocatively with the Statue of Liberty under the slogan “Stormy Donald." Liberty is gagged with a red rag that appears to say "MAGA" and Trump is licking at her

German parade floats mocking Trump are real. Here's why the caricatures were displayed

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 18, 2026

While the date of the parades lined up with Presidents Day in the U.S., several German cities ac ...

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A close-up photo of a Ring video doorbell embedded into a stone wall. A nameplate beneath it says "DISTRICT TEN"

Can ICE access Ring doorbell cameras? We inspected the claim

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 17, 2026

Although the claims originated from Ring's since-canceled community requests partnership with se ...

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A memorial with a bunch of crosses with the names of the victims of the Uvalde mass shooting in front of a sign for Robb Elementary School

Debunking chart that falsely suggests transgender people are more likely to commit mass shootings

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 15, 2026

The data repeatedly shows that transgender people aren't more likely to commit mass shootings th ...

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Photo of woman looking up at a camera directly above with orange hair and while wearing red lipstick. An arrow points to the photo to caption it "NOT THE TUMBLER RIDGE SHOOTER"

Posts falsely claim photo shows Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 14, 2026

The photo was of a woman entirely unrelated to the shooting. Her mother has reportedly said she' ...

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Close up photo of Kristi Noem, a white woman, from the chest up. A microphone is in front of her and a backdrop has blurry DHS seals

Did Kristi Noem say the Bible was written in English?

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 11, 2026

An alleged quote attributed to the homeland security secretary misidentified both the Bible's au ...

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A close up photo of a Ring doorbell camera attached to a black wall. Out-of-focus greenery can be seen to the left of the doorbell.

Does ICE have free access to Ring doorbell cameras through Flock? What to know

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 11, 2026 (Updated: Feb. 16, 2026)

The relationships between tech companies and the Trump administration have come under more scrut ...

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An inauthentic image of Trump and Epstein in what appears to be a bathhouse. Trump has aviator sunglasses and a white towel, but is otherwise naked. Epstein appears to also be naked. What appears to be a teenage girl is washing Trump's foot.

Don't be fooled by alleged image of Trump and Epstein getting feet washed by girl

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 10, 2026

The image originated from an artist who creates realistic but, ultimately, fake images depicting ...

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Two side-by-side images. The left is a sepia-toned image of a young woman, with the red of her lipstick being the color that most pops out. The image on right is a decades-old half-buried car that appears to be in a forest. Most of the car's paint has peeled away, its engine and wheels are missing, and it looks generally ruined

Bury supposed story of missing Texas woman's car found beneath ranch more than 70 years later

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 10, 2026

Some YouTube channels and Facebook page deal exclusively in fictional stories of missing people ...

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Portrait photos of Donald Trump (left) and Octavia Butler (right) over a yellow background filled with red Make America Great Again caps

Octavia Butler used 'make America great again' in book years before Trump, but she didn't coin phrase

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 9, 2026

A presidential character in the author's 1998 "Parable of the Talents" was inspired by Ronald Re ...

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A photo of an opened trapdoor set in greyish-blue flooring. Beneath the trapdoor is clear water. There are four metal ladder rungs attached to a concrete wall leading down to the water.

Epstein files photo shows trapdoor opening to water. Here's its likely purpose

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 6, 2026

Social media users speculated that the door was used for nefarious purposes related to unproven ...

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Google Maps image of the coastline of Virginia, specifically Virginia Beach and the eastern shore. On the right side of the map, just off the ocean's continental shelf, is a section of oceanic islands and underwater features photoshopped into the frame to look like a giant snake off of the coast.

Posts claim images show Leviathan 'waking up.' We found the real story lurking underneath

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 6, 2026

The "beast" on Google Maps — called Leviathan, dragon, snake and more by some — is actually just ...

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Photo from above of a crowd with anti-ICE protest banners filling a Minneapolis street from one building to the other. The US Bank Center is in the background and the ground is covered in snow

Was Minneapolis officially nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize?

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 4, 2026

The Nation, a progressive magazine, formally nominated the city for its residents' resistance to ...

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Close up photo of Liam Ramos, a young boy, wearing a blue beanie and a Spiderman-themed backpack facing the back of a black vehicle covered in ice and/or road salt. An adult is behind him, with a hand on his backpack

Did the school of Liam Ramos, 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota, close because of bomb threat?

Written by: Emery Winter

Feb. 3, 2026

The bomb threat that shut down Columbia Heights Public Schools for a day came as Liam returned h ...

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