Laerke Christensen
Laerke Christensen is a journalist based in London, England. Prior to reporting for Snopes, she verified UGC footage for Storyful news agency, covering topics including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, U.S. college protests, and COVID in China. In addition to the UK, Laerke has lived in Denmark, Austria, and near Denver, Colorado.
Written by: Laerke Christensen
June 3, 2025
Trump made the remark two weeks after Biden announced he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 prostat ...
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June 3, 2025
The footage actually showed a Ukrainian strike on the Crimean port of Feodosia in December 2023 ...
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June 2, 2025
Misinformation about the rapper's 2025 criminal trial abounded online.
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June 2, 2025
Leaders allegedly canceled visits to the U.S. following a travel bulletin, titled: "Don't Go to ...
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June 2, 2025
Social media users claimed the video of the murmuration — when starlings gather in the thousands ...
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May 30, 2025
Musk "stunned" a classroom after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb," according to cl ...
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May 29, 2025 (Updated: June 19, 2025)
The Department of Homeland Security's Trusted Traveler Programs allow prescreened travelers a fa ...
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May 29, 2025
The Biden administration declared the Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office "back in busin ...
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May 28, 2025
The claim started circulating among South African creators and quickly spread across social medi ...
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May 27, 2025
"American Government: Constitutional Foundations," a course offered by Harvard on the edX platfo ...
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May 27, 2025
Trump's all-caps message also bemoaned an "INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT" and "USA HATING JUDGES."
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May 24, 2025
"The American" would see people compete in challenges to win U.S. citizenship, according to a pr ...
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May 23, 2025
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has tested facial-recognition technology at land borders sinc ...
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May 22, 2025
Some U.S. states do have laws criminalizing adultery, but lawyers generally advise against attem ...
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May 21, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early March 2025 that Israel would "stop letti ...
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May 21, 2025
The alleged footage used an altered Axon watermark and his department turned out to be fake.
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May 20, 2025
The claim spread online amid a war of words between Springsteen and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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May 19, 2025
An Oklahoma senator claimed during a CNN interview that discussions around the plane dated back ...
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May 16, 2025
Kennedy made the remark during a House committee hearing.
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May 16, 2025
According to the Daily Mail, TV producer Rob Worsoff pitched "The American," which would see peo ...
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