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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 photo of Buzz Aldrin on the moon. He's wearing his space suit

NASA didn't drop 'bombshell' admitting moon landing was a hoax

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 5, 2025

The claim, which didn't cite when or where NASA supposedly admitted this, came from a frequent p ...

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Did Megyn Kelly say she wanted to see survivors of strike on alleged drug boat 'suffer'?

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 3, 2025

The Department of Defense reportedly killed two survivors of a strike on an alleged drug boat in ...

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Close up of Republican Senator John Kennedy speaking at a podium. Part of his hand is visible at the bottom of the image

Did the 'Born in America Act' pass, forcing federal officeholders to resign? Not so fast

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 26, 2025

In reality, such a change to the law likely would require a constitutional amendment.

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Side-by-side of portraits of AOC, left, and Barron Trump, right. AOC is speaking in front of the microphone and Barron is wearing a blue suit looking up and to the right of the camera

Don't fall for rumor that Barron Trump humiliated AOC during Senate hearing

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 25, 2025

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the House of Representatives, would be unlikely to speak o ...

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Illustrative image of Donald Trump in the foreground, with a basket of bread in front, left, and below him, whereas a turkey dish is behind, right, and above him. A red trend line runs behind all of these. The background is a Walmart storefront

Is Thanksgiving dinner 25% cheaper in 2025, as Trump claimed? Here's what the data shows

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 24, 2025

The 2025 Walmart Thanksgiving meal basket is cheaper than the previous year's basket — but it al ...

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The Amazon logo on a phone screen held up in front of a backdrop with the Amazon Prime logo on it

Amazon's sending users payments from FTC settlement: What to know

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 21, 2025

The safest way to handle an FTC settlement email apparently from PayPal is to not click any link ...

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An illustrative image of Joe Biden sitting at a desk. There is a bunch of internet cabling behind him

Has Biden's $42B broadband equity program connected no one to the internet?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 21, 2025

While the BEAD program hadn't connected anyone yet, government officials were still inching it c ...

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Screenshot of image from ALLOD post. Claims that records Mayor-elect Mamdani has already broken are police department listings in 24 hours, commercial real estate listings in 12 hours and private home listings in 72 hours.

Did NYC break world record for real estate listings after Mamdani's win?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 19, 2025

The number apparently came from a real estate magnate, Joe Barron, a consistent character in Ame ...

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Close up of Jack White, with black chin-length hair and wearing a red and black suit with white tie, in front of backdrop for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Is this a real Jack White response to 'thin skinned' White House after it insulted him?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 15, 2025

The rock musician has frequently criticized U.S. President Donald Trump since the latter entered ...

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Senator John Thune in a blue suit jacket and yellow tie standing in front of a podium with a microphone with people behind him, pointing at someone off-frame

Did Republican senators amend funding bill to allow them to sue government over Jan. 6 investigations?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 13, 2025

The government funding bill passed by the Senate retroactively allows senators to sue for $500,0 ...

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Why false rumors about American Airlines shutting down took flight online

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 12, 2025

The misunderstanding stemmed from the real closure of a different, much smaller airline.

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Will Meta's planned policy update let it read users' DMs starting December 2025?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 11, 2025

Meta's update to its privacy policy will change what it does with data it already collects from ...

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Screenshot of image from Facebook post. Shows an alleyway with pod-like structures lining the side of either building forming the alley. A mattress with a grill on it is visible in an open one in the foreground. There is snow scattered on the ground

Claim about foldable homeless pods in Iceland falls apart under scrutiny

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 8, 2025

While there have been real projects to prototype solar-powered pods to shelter homeless people o ...

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Photo of an American Airlines commercial passenger plane flying through a cloudless blue sky

American Airlines didn't announce it's shutting down

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 6, 2025

The confusion stemmed from a headline about Kenai Aviation, a small airline serving a handful of ...

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Close up of Federal Reserve building. Marble building with a statue of an eagle over the words "Federal Reserve"

Federal Reserve allegedly pumped $29.4B into US banking system. That's not the actual total

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 6, 2025

People on social media were quick to notice an unusually high amount of repo transactions from t ...

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Screenshot of Facebook post of AI-generated image of Vance hugging Erika Kirk on stage while Kirk stands on a coffin. Vance's face is pressed against Kirk's chest.

Image of Erika Kirk standing on coffin, embracing JD Vance isn't what it seems

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 6, 2025

The AI-generated image was a spoof of a real hug the vice president and Erika Kirk shared on sta ...

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Screenshot of image from Facebook post. A photo of a pinkish creature with tentacles around a circular center, in which there is an open mouth with what appears to be top and bottom rows of teeth

Does this image show real 'little sea monster'?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 4, 2025

The photo is of a rarely seen deep sea squid. Its "teeth like a human" are actually lips.

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Screenshot from Instagram post of boy, Jackson Oswalt, posing in a hard hat next to his fusor, which features a radiation symbol on the front. Text below reads: "12-year-old makes world record by building nuclear reactor in bedroom, FBI & Guinness Book pays him a visit."

12-year-old boy achieved nuclear fusion from his bedroom in 2018. The FBI visited afterwards

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 3, 2025

The agency swept Jackson Oswalt's home for radiation in 2018 after he became the youngest person ...

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Screenshot from Facebook post. Graphic of a bunch of little robot spiders on ice sheet with green beams radiating out the top of them. Sky has some kind of object across it and an aurora can be seen in the clouds

False robot alien spider story is invading social media

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 2, 2025 (Updated: Nov. 3, 2025)

A social media page that frequently posts fabricated stories about alien life shared another out ...

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Posts claim business cards are being laced with burundanga. That's impossible

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 2, 2025

Social media posts framed as a "police warning" directed towards women were vague chain messages ...

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