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Joey Esposito

Joey Esposito is based in Maine and has written for outlets like IGN, MTV, Fandom, GameSpot, ScreenJunkies, the Television Academy, Down East Magazine, and many more in his 17 years of writing and reporting experience. He's an avid music-listener and video game player and has just started getting super into birds. He also writes comic books, including "The Pedestrian," "Pawn Shop," "Batman: Urban Legends," "Sesame Street" and more. He was selected to be part of the DC Comics Writers Workshop in 2017.

Epstein emails claimed Bill Gates got STD after 'sex with Russian girls'

Written by: Joey Esposito

Feb. 3, 2026

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates were mentioned in Epstein emails dated July 2013.

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Did Trump poop himself during executive order signing? Rumor isn't backed up by credible evidence

Written by: Joey Esposito

Feb. 2, 2026

Rumors suggested attendees of a news conference visibly reacted to the U.S. president audibly de ...

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Beware claim LA gangs called truce to protect immigrants from ICE

Written by: Joey Esposito

Feb. 2, 2026

Some readers seemed to interpret this fictional story about street gangs in Los Angeles as a fac ...

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Was Ilhan Omar's suspected attacker on her 'payroll,' as CBS allegedly reported? Don't be fooled

Written by: Joey Esposito

Feb. 1, 2026

The claim originated from a social media account known to concoct outright false or misleading h ...

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10 claims about Trump's 'border czar' Tom Homan we've investigated

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 30, 2026

We dug through our archives after Trump dispatched Homan to Minneapolis to oversee the administr ...

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Grounding rumor Variety published 'Melania' movie review saying people would walk out if shown on plane

Written by: Joey Esposito

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

There were no published reviews prior to the film's official release on Jan. 30, 2026.

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Charlie Kirk once said 2nd Amendment is for citizens to 'defend themselves' against tyrannical government

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 29, 2026

Kirk's 2018 post about the Second Amendment resurfaced following the fatal shootings of citizens ...

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Did Trump email supporters asking if they were American citizens or if ICE needed to track them down?

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 28, 2026

A fundraising email from the president's leadership PAC asked recipients to take a survey confir ...

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Don't fall for Trump post claiming he's 'proud' of his 'ICE boys'

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 28, 2026

The fictional post spread online after federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on ...

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Unpacking claim Wisconsin man died from asthma attack because he paid rent instead of buying inhaler

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 27, 2026

The man's family later sued OptumRx and Walgreens, claiming they didn't offer alternatives after ...

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Posts claim man once jumped into LA's tar pits to save dog. They're misleading

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 25, 2026

In June 1951, a man really did jump into the La Brea Tar Pits in an attempt to rescue a dog. Thi ...

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20 claims about videos and images related to ICE, investigated

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 24, 2026

With ICE making its presence known across the country, purported videos and images of the agency ...

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Don't believe purported RFK Jr. post about Oprah Winfrey 'overeating'

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 24, 2026

The alleged post from the nation's health secretary criticizing the talk-show legend fooled many ...

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Claim that Earth is getting temporary 'second moon' stretches the truth

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 23, 2026

The object dubbed Earth's "second moon" is actually a quasi-satellite that's accompanied the pla ...

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Do ICE agents get bonuses for arrests even if people are released? Inspecting the claim

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 23, 2026

The rumor spread following a Wall Street Journal report about ICE's actions in Minneapolis.

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'Super-Earth' exoplanet discovery is real, but it isn't sending 'strange signals'

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 19, 2026

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals ...

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What we know about Ford autoworker's confrontation with Trump

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 15, 2026

A video shows the president flipping off a heckler during a visit to a Ford plant in Michigan.

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Unpacking claim that 'one of ours, all of yours' phrase on Noem's podium is Nazi slogan

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 14, 2026

We found no evidence confirming the phrase appearing on a lectern originated verbatim in Nazi Ge ...

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Is PBS shutting down? Here's the truth

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 12, 2026

While leaders of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) voted to dissolve that organizati ...

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15 rumors about the CIA that Snopes has investigated

Written by: Joey Esposito

Jan. 11, 2026

The CIA has been the target of numerous rumors, spanning everything from its knowledge of UFOs t ...

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