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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.

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Watch out for this video of Venezuelans celebrating Maduro's capture, thanking Trump

Written by: Emery Winter

Jan. 5, 2026 (Updated: Jan. 8, 2026)

Venezuelans have reportedly had mixed reactions to the U.S. operation to capture President Nicol ...

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Is Costco building apartments over its stores? We inspected

Written by: Emery Winter

Jan. 1, 2026 (Updated: Jan. 5, 2026)

A Costco store being built in Los Angeles will have affordable apartments above it, but as of la ...

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Wrong place, wrong bird in Trump's post about bald eagles and 'windmills'

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 31, 2025

The U.S. president posted a picture of what actually appeared to be a dead falcon near wind turb ...

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Did Stephen Colbert launch sanctuary for abandoned and abused dogs?

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 30, 2025

AI-generated, feel-good stories about celebrities continue to run rampant on Facebook.

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Can Epstein files be unredacted with a simple copy and paste? What we know

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 26, 2025

There is at least one document among the files currently released in which redacted text can be ...

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Don't sleep on this story about English town canceling fireworks show to let walrus rest

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 25, 2025

Shouts of "goo goo g'joob" would likely have been just as unwelcome to the walrus as the pops an ...

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Coca-Cola didn't invent modern image of Santa Claus. Here's how centuries of Christmas tradition shaped it

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 24, 2025

Coca-Cola may have helped popularize Santa's look, but his modern image was already taking shape ...

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False claim of secret tunnels beneath Rob Reiner's home spreads online

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 22, 2025

The slain director was the latest celebrity to be targeted in the regularly peddled AI-generated ...

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Watch out for this video of alligator swimming in mall fountain

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 19, 2025

The only "onlookers" gawking at the alligator were the collection of people that gathered online ...

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Don't be fooled by supposed drone image of giant octopus in Gulf of Mexico

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 18, 2025

No one is releasing the kraken yet.

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'Things can happen': Trump quote about Brown University shooting spreads online

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 16, 2025

The U.S. president made the remark while speaking at a Christmas reception.

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Don't believe rumor Barron Trump shut down Ilhan Omar on MSNBC

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 15, 2025

This made-up story is strikingly similar to a tale of the presidential son confronting Rep. Alex ...

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What to know about claims of California 'radiation fog'

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 13, 2025

The massive blanket of fog wasn't filled with radioactive material, as some claimed.

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White House really posted image of Trump as Minecraft character

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 12, 2025

Despite the freedom with which people can customize their characters in the popular game, this p ...

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How to spot suspicious health supplements and avoid getting scammed

Written by: Emery Winter William Kramer

Dec. 12, 2025

Snopes readers regularly ask whether supplement brands like Neurocept and Burn Peak are legit. H ...

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Don't believe video showing Netflix logo on iconic Warner Bros. water tower

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 11, 2025

A video shared online soon after Netflix announced it was acquiring Warner Bros. was edited so t ...

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Screenshot of AI-generated video of Judge Frank Caprio. He sits in the judge's seat with hands folded in front of him. The nameplate beneath him is garbled to illegibility

Did Judge Caprio 'shut down' CEO's daughter? You can rule the video a fake

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 9, 2025

The video shared online in December 2025 was generated with artificial intelligence tools.

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AI-generated image showing a pine tree-covered mountain in a green landscape. The face of the mountain facing the viewer has been hollowed out by a crater. Deformed cars are along a dirt road directly beneath the crater. A winding river runs in the background

Did Wyoming mountain really collapse? Rumor doesn't hold up

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 8, 2025

While real mountains can collapse in a similar fashion due to landslides, this particular story ...

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Don't waste your energy on claim about tiny Japanese generators pulling electricity from air

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 8, 2025

Though research on moisture-electric generators, which create energy from ambient humidity, exis ...

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Did Bette Midler declare $68M Netflix investment on live TV?

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 7, 2025

The rumor was vague in details, but that's probably because those details didn't exist.

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