Madison Dapcevich
Madison Dapcevich joined the Snopes newsroom as a freelance contributor in August 2023. Between July 2020 and July 2022, she was a full-time writer for Snopes. Before debunking digital rumors, Dapcevich spent several years working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., reporting on agricultural and environmental issues throughout the Rocky Mountains, and covering breaking science news in the tech sector of San Francisco. Dapcevich's reporting has been featured in several publications, including those published during her staff positions at EcoWatch and IFLScience. She holds a master's degree in environmental science and natural resource journalism from the University of Montana, as well as a graduate certificate in natural resource conflict resolution. Dapcevich attended Cal Poly Humboldt and received undergraduate degrees in journalism and political science. When not plucking away on a computer keyboard, Dapcevich serves as a communications lead aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus assisting in deep-sea exploration and research. In her free time, she can be found whitewater kayaking and can traversing through the Montana backcountry with her two dogs, Ruka and Cholla.
Written by: Madison Dapcevich Jessica Lee
May 31, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich
May 31, 2022 (Updated: June 2, 2022)
When science becomes nightmarish.
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May 31, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
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May 26, 2022
Nineteen children and two adults were killed on May 24, 2022, after an 18-year-old gunman opened ...
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May 26, 2022
Logical fallacies are behind many of the harmful misunderstandings, rumors, and conspiracy theor ...
Written by: Madison Dapcevich Bethania Palma
May 24, 2022
A collection of dubious claims and debunked rumors in the wake of mass casualties.
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May 23, 2022
A post told users that they would be entered to win by commenting “Done.”
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May 19, 2022
U.S. health officials are tracking clusters of infections in countries that don’t normally repor ...
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May 18, 2022
The tweet included a video of Greene talking to a crowd about abortion.
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May 18, 2022
A video shows the cephalopod changing from a stark black color to transparent in seconds.
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May 17, 2022 (Updated: May 18, 2022)
The supposed jab came after Fox News previously called out comedian Pete Davidson for a similar ...
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May 16, 2022
But the picture does show a very real, very adorable “puggle.”
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May 16, 2022
To suggest a decline in abortion-related deaths was purely due to the lega ...
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May 12, 2022 (Updated: May 13, 2022)
Or could it be a simple switch of spam settings?
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May 11, 2022
It's either a door leading to another celestial dimension ... or part of a rock.
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May 10, 2022
Snopes spoke with NASA and the lead author of a popularly cited study to clarify.
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May 4, 2022
The Walmart brand sells wipes, formula, diapers, and several other baby pr ...
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May 3, 2022
To answer the question, we must first understand the difference between land and air temperature ...
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May 3, 2022
Snopes dug through the archives to find decades’ worth of abortion-related fact checks and repor ...
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April 29, 2022
The controversial “Mammy” character has come to be seen as a “racial stereotype.”
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