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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Aug. 20, 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize isn't something you can simply apply for, anyhow.
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Aug. 19, 2025
Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house wit ...
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Aug. 18, 2025 (Updated: Sept. 2, 2025)
The unsubstantiated post came from a journalist who has worked to discredit the claim that Russi ...
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Aug. 15, 2025
The claim spread following Trump's decision to end all federal support for the Corporation for P ...
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Aug. 14, 2025
State Senate President J. Stuart Adams suggested to another lawmaker he should look into the law ...
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Aug. 12, 2025
The rumor about the Edmonton Oilers center spread through social media posts without anything to ...
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Aug. 10, 2025
Rivas is a member of the Rarámuri, an indigenous group known for traditional long-distance running.
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Aug. 9, 2025
A New York Post article spreading the rumor did not provide a clear definition of what it consid ...
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Aug. 8, 2025
Texas is one of 26 states in which the state legislature draws federal house districts.
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Aug. 6, 2025
Social media posts claim Molly Forbes — a "little frail 92-year-old Scottish widow" — fought wit ...
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Aug. 5, 2025
State schools superintendent Ryan Walters said the initiative was being planned in coordination ...
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Aug. 4, 2025
Biologists call the response "tonic immobility," and know it's a response to a high-stress envir ...
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July 31, 2025
Molly Forbes, who died in 2021, and her son Michael fought a long and well-documented battle wit ...
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July 23, 2025
Biles called Gaines, who has an extensive history of attacking transgender (and cisgender) women ...
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July 22, 2025
Such an announcement would easily have made national headlines.
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July 22, 2025
Kix's rings contained radioactive polonium-210, but not enough to cause harm.
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July 21, 2025
Ring said on social media that strange login patterns were caused by a programming error, not ha ...
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July 17, 2025
The claim spread in AI-generated videos, which featured disclaimers that the content wasn't real.
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July 17, 2025
By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the dange ...
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July 16, 2025
The original image, taken in 1997, shows the two men with Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.
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