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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Dec. 4, 2023
"This is going to be very interesting," one commenter wrote.
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Dec. 1, 2023
The claim combined two of the biggest news stories of the month into one.
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Nov. 30, 2023
There's so much wrong about this satire article that it's not even funny.
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Nov. 29, 2023
In case you were wondering how easy it is to make up a "fact" on the internet.
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Nov. 28, 2023
This claim has circulated in corners of the internet since August 2023.
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Nov. 27, 2023
The rumor of the comedian's supposed death spread from unreliable "news" sites to social media.
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Nov. 26, 2023
The bathtub story might be the most famous thing about Taft's presidency, but is it true?
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Nov. 24, 2023
Removing a very large castle in one night is a bit too magical, even for Disney.
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Nov. 23, 2023
The history of one of the world's most important rocks is long and complicated.
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Nov. 22, 2023
No, Musk is not implementing a "no wokeness allowed" policy for advertisers.
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Nov. 21, 2023
Presidents are allowed to have fun, too.
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Nov. 21, 2023
The article's outlandish headline might have garnered clicks, but it also should have set off so ...
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Nov. 18, 2023
While the frogs do feign death, they don't do it on purpose.
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Nov. 17, 2023
Snopes has previously fact-checked articles about Thomas and Gaines.
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Nov. 16, 2023
As long as more people than an attraction can handle want to ride it, there has to be some type ...
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Nov. 15, 2023
The clips surfaced after the release of "The Marvels," which bombed at the box office.
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Nov. 14, 2023
For the record, even during the height of the protests in 2017, there were entire teams who stoo ...
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Nov. 13, 2023
The Walt Disney Company was in the process of merging the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services wh ...
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Nov. 11, 2023
The original article spoils the entire plot of the supposed sequel, but this fact check is spoil ...
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Nov. 10, 2023
It's actually a not-so-secret chamber.
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