Jack Izzo
Jack Izzo is a San Diego-born, Chicago-based journalist who joined Snopes in October 2023. Prior to Snopes, Jack graduated with a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University, where he researched the psychology of misinformation under Prof. David Rapp. Jack writes about anything and everything — he covered scientific breakthroughs at Popular Science, Northwestern sports for InsideNU, and has a short documentary premiering at the AmDocs film festival in 2024. A two-time "Jeopardy!" alumnus, Jack enjoys climbing rocks, throwing frisbees, solving Rubik’s Cubes, and DJing at his former college radio station, WNUR.
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June 30, 2025
Allegedly, the farmer was constructing the sculpture in response to the U.S. president's tariffs.
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June 13, 2025
A satirical social media page posted the claim in May, but it was shared out of context in June.
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June 13, 2025
The rumor spread in Facebook posts featuring AI-generated images.
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June 12, 2025
According to its website, Palantir makes "products for human-driven analysis of real-world data."
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June 12, 2025
The video contained a watermark linking to an Instagram page that posts AI-generated content.
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June 10, 2025
Gaines' extensive history of attacking transgender (and cisgender) women in sports led Biles to ...
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June 5, 2025
A post from conservative influencer Ian Miles Cheong defended the tech billionaire during an int ...
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June 5, 2025
Ye, formerly Kanye West, posted less than 30 minutes after Musk claimed Trump was named in docum ...
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June 4, 2025
"Taco" in this context stands for "Trump always chickens out."
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June 3, 2025
The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace f ...
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June 1, 2025
Several similarly named but completely separate organizations sanction boxing.
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May 31, 2025 (Updated: July 14, 2025)
Provisions that would make it harder for judges to enforce rulings were struck by the Senate par ...
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May 29, 2025
According to the YouTube videos spreading the claim, Crockett left Trump "begging" on air.
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May 29, 2025
The tech billionaire, who was born in South Africa, has made the claim multiple times.
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May 28, 2025
The rumor was never reported by a reliable news outlet.
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May 27, 2025 (Updated: July 14, 2025)
While the bill does have a lot of controversial provisions, this supposed change isn't one of them.
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May 24, 2025
The claim originated with former Soviet and Kazakh security official Alnur Mussayev.
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May 23, 2025
The claim originated from a social media page known for satirical content.
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May 22, 2025 (Updated: May 27, 2025)
Tech billionaire Elon Musk was born in South Africa but emigrated at age 17 and eventually becam ...
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May 20, 2025
Residents did receive advance warning of the tornado before it hit.
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