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Snopes' favorite claims we unpacked in 2025

Written by: Izz Scott LaMagdeleine

Dec. 27, 2025

From a controversial California law to alleged Labubu lore, these are the stories Snopes staff c ...

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A screenshot of a page from the Epstein files, in which paragraphs numbered 203, 204, and 205 are entirely blacked out by redactions

Can Epstein files be unredacted with a simple copy and paste? What we know

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 26, 2025

There is at least one document among the files currently released in which redacted text can be ...

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FBI tip alleged Trump witnessed Epstein victim's baby being killed, dumped in Lake Michigan

Written by: Taija PerryCook

Dec. 26, 2025

The allegations in the tip have not been substantiated, however.

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Trump's Christmas message on Truth Social highlighted Epstein

Written by: Joey Esposito

Dec. 26, 2025

The president began his holiday wishes by saying, "Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sl ...

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Unpacking rumor White House is managing DOJ X account

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Dec. 26, 2025

Some social media users suggested the White House took over the account to protect President Don ...

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Why Steve Wozniak can show off homemade $2 bills without getting arrested

Written by: Aleksandra Wrona

Dec. 26, 2025

The Apple co-founder's $2 bills are real, but he isn't actually printing them.

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Looking back on 2025: Unexpectedly true rumors we fact-checked

Written by: Megan Loe

Dec. 26, 2025

Even our reporters were surprised by the truth behind some of this year's wildest rumors.

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Former President Bill Clinton slumped in a chair wearing a blue dress and red high heels.

Epstein owned painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress. Here's context

Written by: Rae Deng

Dec. 26, 2025

At Congress' behest, the U.S. Department of Justice released hundreds of files related to Epstei ...

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Yes, Nicki Minaj's husband is registered sex offender

Written by: Jack Izzo

Dec. 26, 2025

In 1995, Kenneth Petty was convicted on a charge of attempted rape in the first degree.

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Photo of walrus lying on its side and sleeping on brick and against a wooden post. Water creeps up the brick, which forms a ramp, behind the walrus

Don't sleep on this story about English town canceling fireworks show to let walrus rest

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 25, 2025

Shouts of "goo goo g'joob" would likely have been just as unwelcome to the walrus as the pops an ...

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Looking back on 2025: Rumors that took us down research rabbit holes

Written by: Izz Scott LaMagdeleine

Dec. 25, 2025

Snopes works hard to get to the bottom of every claim it investigates. These rumors took more ti ...

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Was Christmas song with lyric 'Santa came down my chimney' once banned for being too risqué?

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Dec. 25, 2025

The provocative song comes from Sus Records, a YouTube channel known for using AI to make musica ...

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Shaking up rumor that first snow globe was invented by accident

Written by: Aleksandra Wrona

Dec. 25, 2025

The story points to Austrian mechanic Erwin Perzy in 1900, but records show snow globes existed ...

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Trump took Epstein's jet 'many more times than previously reported,' according to assistant US attorney

Written by: Anna Rascouët-Paz

Dec. 24, 2025

A 2020 email from a federal prosecutor, released by the Department of Justice, said Trump flew o ...

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A brief history of the Christmas tree

Written by: Jack Izzo

Dec. 24, 2025

Three different theories trace the Christmas tree back to the 1400s or 1500s. Two others go even ...

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Snopes' Christmas playlist: Holiday song rumors we've fact-checked

Written by: Nur Ibrahim

Dec. 24, 2025

From "The Twelve Days of Christmas" to "Jingle Bells," this playlist has it all.

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Close up photo of a person's back. The person is wearing a Santa hat and a red jacket with "Coca-Cola" embroidered into its back.

Coca-Cola didn't invent modern image of Santa Claus. Here's how centuries of Christmas tradition shaped it

Written by: Emery Winter

Dec. 24, 2025

Coca-Cola may have helped popularize Santa's look, but his modern image was already taking shape ...

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Did John Legend pull music from Amazon over Bezos' ties to Trump?

Written by: Jack Izzo

Dec. 24, 2025

The rumor didn't line up with any actual events.

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CBS pulled report on Salvadoran prison CECOT because it was a 'blatant hoax'?

Written by: Taija PerryCook

Dec. 23, 2025

Bari Weiss, CBS' editor-in-chief, reportedly held the story about abuses in the facility because ...

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Investigating letter Epstein allegedly sent to Larry Nassar that mentioned Trump

Written by: Joey Esposito

Dec. 23, 2025

The correspondence in question is present in the Department of Justice's files on Epstein, but i ...

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