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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 AI-generated eagle video featuring rows of gravestones with eagles perched upon most of them. Many of the gravestones have American flags in front of them.

Video shows thousands of bald eagles at Missouri veterans cemetery?

Written by: Emery Winter

Nov. 1, 2025

The video was posted by Branson Area Breaking News, a satirical Facebook page.

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Photo of man at the edge of an acid pond cratered into reddish desert surface, sky is clear and blue above

Is a new ocean forming in Africa?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 30, 2025

The African continent is gradually splitting apart. Although a new ocean is expected to form as ...

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Screenshot of Facebook post. Has a photo of a young, brown-haired woman wearing glasses beneath text saying Hedviga Golik passed away alone in her apartment in 1966, and that her body went undiscovered for 42 years until found in 2008 during renovations

Posts claim Croatian nurse who died in apartment wasn't discovered for 42 years. They're mostly right

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 30, 2025 (Updated: Jan. 29, 2026)

Hedviga Golik died in her apartment in Zagreb, now the capital of Croatia, between 1966 and 1973 ...

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Screenshot of AI-generated video claimed to be of Hurricane Melissa's eye. Taken from above hurricane, full eye visible with clouds swirling around and down into the eye. A plane wing is visible in the top left and the frame of a plane window can be seen at the bottom

Video from above clouds shaped like a 'wormhole' isn't real footage of Hurricane Melissa

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 28, 2025

Hurricane Melissa became the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in Jamaica when it hit th ...

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Side-by-side portraits of Cory Booker to the left and Terry Rozier to the right

Cory Booker hasn't been linked to Terry Rozier gambling scandal

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 24, 2025

NBA player Terry Rozier was the most high-profile name in the FBI's announcement of an illegal s ...

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Screenshot of image from Facebook post. Two trail cam screenshots. Top is of a pair of chimpanzees walking by wearing masks. Bottom also has two chimpanzees, one at front wearing a mask and one at back without a mask

Don't go ape for images of masked chimps said to be raiding Congo markets

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 23, 2025

The fake images were nothing but monkey business.

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Screenshot of AI-generated rendering of White House ballroom. Shows a massive, off-colored building jutting directly off main building of White House, which it dwarfs.

Look out for rumored rendering of Trump's White House ballroom

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 23, 2025

A fake image of an off-colored ballroom affixed directly to the main building of the White House ...

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Close up photo of Donald Trump in a blue suit and red tie

Breaking down Trump's claim 50% of US presidents have invoked Insurrection Act

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 23, 2025

The last time a president invoked the act was during the 1992 Rodney King riots.

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Photo of stone ruins of ancient Carthage. The blue sea is in the background, as are the silhouettes of mountains.

Did Rome and Carthage sign 1985 peace treaty for wars that began more than 2,000 years earlier?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 20, 2025

The two ancient cities fought a series of wars, known as the Punic Wars, between 264 B.C. and 14 ...

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Illustrative image. Conjuring house in background. Over it is a portrait of Mary Shelley, photo of Ghostface, a photo of an inkcap mushroom, and a photo of an octopus stinkhorn mushroom

Not all creepy stories are made up. These 14 have some truth

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 19, 2025

Halloween season is ripe with stories about gore, haunted houses, frightening creatures, paranor ...

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Close up photo of Alexander Trufanov. He is a young man with a short brown hair and facial hair

Did freed Israeli hostage Alexander Turbanov release statement praising his captors?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 17, 2025

The alleged quote appeared on social media days after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came ...

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Graphic showing incorrect "Looney Toons" logo in front of several logos with the correct "Looney Tunes" spelling

'Looney Tunes' was once called 'Looney Toons'?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 17, 2025

While some may swear it's an example of the Mandela Effect, the reality is that the Looney Tunes ...

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Screenshot from Facebook post. Two bodycam screenshots vertically next to each other. Both show man wearing ushanka on back of bear along the road. A police cruiser is behind them. The man drinks from the vodka bottle in one of the frames

Wyoming man got DUI while riding bear?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 16, 2025

Casper Planet, a satirical Facebook page, first posted the story online alongside an AI-generate ...

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Screenshot of image from post. Shows what looks like wind turbine housing with a blade on either end of it floating over plains and a mountain landscape

Did wind turbine blade fly 'like a helicopter' 47 miles across Wyoming?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 14, 2025

People have fallen for a number of posts by Casper Planet, the satire page that first posted the ...

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Screenshot of three panel image from Facebook post. Top is a bunch of rocks in front of a cave entrance, bottom left is a couple photographed hugging together in a desert, bottom right is two skeletons in a cave

Story about missing Colorado couple found in Utah uranium mine unravels under scrutiny

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 14, 2025

This was just one of many made-up stories about missing people found in unusual circumstances ye ...

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Side-by-side of Machado and Trump. Machado, at left, is speaking with a microphone in hand. Trump, on right, is speaking with a podium mic in front of him

Did MarĂ­a Corina Machado dedicate her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 13, 2025

The Venezuelan opposition leader posted to social media after being honored.

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Screenshot of Reddit image. Top photo is anglerfish underwater from the front, with big jagged teeth and lure swimming in ocean blue water. Bottom photo is same anglerfish, black, within the palm of a hand wearing a black glove

Real palm-sized anglerfish shown in this photo?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 13, 2025

While some species of anglerfish can grow up to a few feet in length, most are much smaller. The ...

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Crocs has new 'instant classic' logo?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 12, 2025

Crocs' iconic clogs still feature the decades-old cartoon crocodile.

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Screenshot of TikTok video, depicts person in inflatable pickle costume running with a police officer running after them and a police car behind

Video shows police chasing person in pickle costume?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 11, 2025

The footage appeared to be filmed from the perspective of a helicopter or drone covering the sur ...

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Screenshot of image from Facebook post of a couple of chimpanzees carrying penguins along a path in a green jungle while three other penguins walk alongside them. There's an inset image of chimpanzees carrying penguins on a sandy beach

Real story about chimpanzees domesticating penguins?

Written by: Emery Winter

Oct. 9, 2025

The page that posted the tale to Facebook, StoryTime, is a repeat offender of posting fictitious ...

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