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.
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Oct. 13, 2024
"Latin America has 99 problems but hurricanes ain't one," one Reddit user said.
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Oct. 12, 2024
"Life Is So Good" was written by the grandson of an enslaved person.
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Oct. 12, 2024
For centuries, hurricanes have acquired names for a variety of different reasons.
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Oct. 8, 2024
Some credit 19th-century Australian meteorologist Clement L. Wragge for initiating the hurricane ...
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Oct. 8, 2024
Natural quicksand is a mixture of fine sand, microscopic clay particles, and water.
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Oct. 6, 2024
Videos of muscly marsupials flaunting their figures spurred some social media users to claim suc ...
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Oct. 4, 2024
The creature is an eastern quoll, an Australian marsupial that is about the size of a domestic cat.
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Oct. 4, 2024
Baby peacocks are actually known as "peachicks."
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Oct. 1, 2024
It joins a growing number of design concepts meant to distort human faces to advanced programming.
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Sept. 26, 2024
Nintendo supposedly secured the rights to bury the movies' existence.
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Sept. 24, 2024
One set of menus posted on X was dated April 14, 1912, the night the ship struck an iceberg.
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Sept. 22, 2024
A purported mugshot used in social media posts about the story has circulated online for years.
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Sept. 22, 2024
A man in Florida was said to have been bitten by the lethally venomous taipan snake.
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Sept. 17, 2024
A supposed news report identified the man as a resident of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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Sept. 16, 2024
The striking image had been circulating online for years but resurfaced on social media in mid-2024.
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Sept. 14, 2024
The kit allegedly included items that resembled a hoodie, firearm, cash and marijuana.
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Sept. 8, 2024
Some social media users claimed the mobster lobbied for the cause after his niece became ill aft ...
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Sept. 8, 2024
Emma Gibson was frozen as an embryo in 1992 – her non-biological mother was born in 1991.
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Sept. 8, 2024
Experts said the insects were poorly understood in the scientific community.
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Sept. 7, 2024
Items resembling a hoodie, firearm, cash and marijuana were all supposedly included in the kit.
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