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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March 11, 2026 (Updated: March 12, 2026)
No credible news outlet reported on the alleged ban.
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March 9, 2026
The owner of Atlas Survival Shelters made the claim in a March 8, 2026, article published by The ...
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March 6, 2026 (Updated: March 10, 2026)
The IRIS Dena was headed back to Iran from Visakhapatnam, India, where it participated in a mult ...
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March 5, 2026
A social media user said he shared it "symbolically to reflect the scale of the tragedy."
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March 5, 2026
Remarkably, this is the third time Snopes has fact-checked a claim attempting to connect the two.
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March 4, 2026
Claims that Hegseth has Nazi or white supremacist tattoos have circulated online since he was no ...
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Feb. 27, 2026
The claim originated from reports published by the conservative-led nonprofit White Coat Waste, ...
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Feb. 26, 2026
Knight responded to President Donald Trump's comments about the women's hockey team during an ES ...
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Feb. 26, 2026
The source of the rumor, a subreddit for ICE employees, was quickly set to private after reports ...
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Feb. 25, 2026
This wasn't the first time the FBI director was accused of using the government's private jets f ...
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Feb. 23, 2026
Posts implied the late-night host had received a threat from U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Feb. 19, 2026
With the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in the spotlight, claims about politicians and athletes tore ...
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Feb. 19, 2026
While this claim began as a joke, the president did call a U.S. skier "a real loser" for speakin ...
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Feb. 18, 2026
The show's status and legacy have made it the occasional target of politics and rumors.
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Feb. 16, 2026
The claim appeared following comments Watters and other Fox News hosts made downplaying the seve ...
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Feb. 14, 2026
Investigating the claim was difficult because the unofficial subreddit for agents, from where th ...
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Feb. 14, 2026
The president didn't share the post in question — and the idea behind it isn't backed by science.
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Feb. 13, 2026
The image originated from a social media account that describes itself as "an AI-powered meme en ...
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Feb. 12, 2026
The video aimed to capitalize on unsubstantiated claims that the musician wore a bulletproof ves ...
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Feb. 10, 2026
The claim originated on a social media page that calls its output satire.
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