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Rae Deng

Rae Deng joined Snopes in late 2024 after covering state legislatures across the country, most recently at the Washington State Standard, where they reported on topics like K-12 education, public health, immigration and criminal justice. They have also covered statehouse policy and politics in Minnesota and Ohio. Their freelance reporting, primarily focused on race, equity, disability and identity, has appeared in HuffPost, STAT News and other publications. Rae lives in Tacoma, Washington, with their partner and a very stinky cat. In their free time, they enjoy throwing pots at a local ceramics studio, reading cozy fantasy books and playing open-world video games. Rae previously published under the byline "Grace Deng." 

Protesters hold US flags and signs with a crown crossed out.

Billionaires support groups behind 'No Kings,' but they didn't spend $300M to fund protests

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 24, 2025

Billionaires fund organizations on both the left and right. That doesn't mean they spent $300 mi ...

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Did Trump propose 'Congressional Reform Act of 2025' to limit lawmakers' privileges? Here's the truth

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 24, 2025

Snopes has reported on variants of this supposed act since 2009. As of 2025, it's still fake news.

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Close-up picture of an immigration officer's badge and gun, hanging from their jeans.

Federal database says ICE bought 'guided missile warheads.' That's probably an error

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 23, 2025

A related rumor about ICE's purchases of "chemical weapons" was true. The agency has bought muni ...

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An image of an otter looking toward the camera and holding what appears to be kelp.

Sea otter harasses California surfers, stealing their surfboards?

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 22, 2025

The outlaw otter was last spotted in May 2024. Reports in October 2025 suggest there may be copy ...

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In this photo collage, a brown leather-bound "God Bless the USA" Bible takes up the majority of the image. In the background, there is a stock image of an empty classroom.

Some Oklahoma schools received Trump-backed Bibles with outdated U.S. Constitution. Here's context

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 20, 2025

Bibles in Oklahoma classrooms allegedly included a version of the U.S. Constitution without the ...

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A white woman with long wavy brunette hair wearing a dark green suit (right) shakes hands with uniformed men (left) in front of a plane.

Coast Guard spent about $200M on private jets for Kristi Noem, other top officials. Here's the contract

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 20, 2025 (Updated: Oct. 22, 2025)

Publicly available government documents indicate the Coast Guard spent at least $172 million on ...

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A young blonde girl in a circular framed image collaged alongside a bigger image of her parents, Jim Bob Duggar (left) and Michelle Duggar (right), two white people with brown hair smiling at the camera.

Josie Duggar from reality show 'Counting On' didn't die of cancer

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 18, 2025

Duggar sibling Jinger Vuolo posted images of her sister, alive and well, in the same month socia ...

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On the left: Former U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, two older white men in suits, shake hands. On the right: U.S. President Donald Trump, an older white man in a suit, holds up a signed treaty.

Rumor claims Trump used Biden's 'exact deal' to end war in Gaza. That's not true

Written by: Rae Deng Taija PerryCook

Oct. 17, 2025

On Oct. 13, Hamas released all remaining hostages per the first phase of Trump's proposal. Biden ...

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In this photo collage, nine Supreme Court justices' headshots are collaged together in front of a blurred background of the Supreme Court building, a white Roman pillar-style structure.

23 rumors we've fact-checked related to U.S. Supreme Court

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 13, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court justices are often the subject of online speculation.

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On the left: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a white man with short greying brown hair in a suit and glasses. On the right: A screenshot of a TikTok, in which a bald, white man with a beard and glasses appears in portrait mode with the words, "You have till WEDNESDAY, Mike!"

Baseless rumor about Mike Johnson's alleged Grindr account keeps spreading online

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 11, 2025

TikTok user @razzledazzlemo raised more than $29,000 for "legal expenses" after claiming to have ...

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An older white man wearing circle glasses sifts through papers.

Democrats don't want $3.6M for 'Haitian male prostitutes' to reopen government

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 10, 2025 (Updated: Oct. 14, 2025)

The rumor, popularized by Sen. John Kennedy, appeared to be connected to an HIV/AIDS prevention ...

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Two black and white images side by side. On the left: Deidre Shaw, a younger woman, with an older woman, actress Angela Lansbury, both wearing cocktail dresses. On the right: Charles Manson, a white man with shoulder length hair and a full beard, in handcuffs.

Did Angela Lansbury move to Ireland to protect daughter from Charles Manson? What we know

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 7, 2025

Manson reportedly hung around Deidre Shaw, daughter of the "Murder She Wrote" star, in the 1960s.

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U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Black, bald man in a grey suit, and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, an older white man in a navy suit, leave the White House. man wearing a blue suit.

Democrats didn't shut down government to fund health care for 'illegal aliens.' Here's context

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 3, 2025 (Updated: Oct. 7, 2025)

Immigrants in the country illegally are not eligible for federal health care insurance plans. Th ...

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Charlie Kirk, a white man with short brown hair wearing a suit, in front of a repeated background pattern of one dollar U.S. coins.

GOP lawmakers introduced bill to put Charlie Kirk on U.S. currency. Here's context

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 1, 2025

The legislation would direct the Treasury Department to mint no more than 400,000 limited editio ...

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On the left: Pope Leo XIV, an older white man in traditional white papal robes. On the right: Charlie Kirk, a younger white man in a suit.

Contextualizing claim Pope Leo XIV is replacing Cardinal Dolan, who compared Charlie Kirk to saint

Written by: Rae Deng

Oct. 1, 2025

Here's what's true — and what's false — about rumors that Leo is replacing New York Cardinal Tim ...

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A group of National Guardsmen in camo military wear standing outside of the White House. A U.S. flag is on the right.

Contextualizing claims Trump deployed National Guard on 29-day orders to avoid paying benefits

Written by: Rae Deng

Sept. 29, 2025

Deploying members on 29-day orders is reportedly a common practice in the guard.

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An artificially generated image of a group of seals laying on top of a rectangular artificial block of ice.

Has Norway created artificial ice pods for Arctic seals to replace their vanishing habitat?

Written by: Rae Deng

Sept. 29, 2025

This claim did not receive a seal of approval.

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A man holds up a rainbow sensory push pop toy shaped like a heart.

12 rumors about autism that Snopes has investigated

Written by: Rae Deng

Sept. 27, 2025

Here's a look into our efforts to dispel misinformation about the widely misunderstood condition.

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Two black and white portraits in gold frames. The portrait on the left is labeled "Joseph R. Biden" and shows a photo of a machine signing Biden's name. The portrait on the right is a headshot of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Trump hung Biden's 'autopen signature' in new White House 'Walk of Fame,' but many presidents have used device

Written by: Rae Deng

Sept. 26, 2025

Presidents have signed documents via autopen since Thomas Jefferson.

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A hand holds up a phone with a yellow "Grindr" logo on it.

Breaking down rumors of alleged Grindr outages near Charlie Kirk memorial

Written by: Rae Deng

Sept. 23, 2025 (Updated: Sept. 25, 2025)

Similar spikes occurred in cities across the United States, according to crowdsourced data.

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