for @snopes.com, i looked into rumors that lifetouch, the school photo company, is in the epstein files. what i found: a single debit card transaction from a redacted account and no mention of any lifetouch execs. here's what their 'ties' to epstein look like. 1/3

This is the correct take. ALSO: The ex-gf has spoken & she does not seem to want to take him back: "I did not choose to be put in this position, and it hurts to have to be in it." people.com/sturla-holm-...

I just tested this out with a selfie, asking Gemini to add a digital watermark and then starting a new chat to ask. Gemini said it had the SynthID watermark so it's AI. Gemini also falsely claimed the "Hiroshima USA" magazine behind me was AI generated because of tiny distortions it added.

absolutely horrendous that in our current online environment false claims like this one about alex pretti — the result of ai-generated slop on a half-formed wordpress blog — can spread so quickly. for @snopes.com: www.snopes.com/fact-check/a...

raises questions about how we define violence and crime. www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

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Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting “We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

merry christmas from me and @snopes.com www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

a writer's dream is to one day publish a story that allows them to use as many different descriptors of "drunken raccoon rampage" as possible www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

used my very expensive journalism degree to prove that democrats aren't shutting the government down to stand in solidarity with "haitian male prostitutes." literally made a data visualization of state dept data on an hiv/aids treatment program for this www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...

some in the american left like to lionize pope leo — and in this case, spread a claim that he's replacing NY's pro-charlie kirk archbishop with a 'pro-immigration, anti-gun bishop.' the thing is, most bishops are pro-immigration and anti-gun...bc they're catholic. www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...

A dark day for Northwest journalism: @cascadepbs.bsky.social is axing the @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social, laying off 17 people, per internal memo obtained by @kuow.org. Cascade PBS got ~10% of its budget from Corp. for Public Broadcasting. Unclear why its whole newsroom had to be axed.

Devastating news for local journalism.

got to do a lil dive into americana with this one. fun fact: you don't need to ai generate images of black cowgirls in the old west because they already exist!! www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...

I'll be on a panel "identifying anti-trans and anti-queer bias" at @aajaofficial.bsky.social this year with these amazing journalists @gracesdeng.bsky.social, @shaanthx.bsky.social, and Hannah Chinn. Don't miss it! Saturday, 9 am at the Redwood. See you there. 😤

my attempt for @snopes.com to break down the extremely wonky trump admin provision(s) that, in short, will likely make care more expensive and less accessible for trans people on private insurance. www.snopes.com/news/2025/07...

Fact-checkers always want the facts. That’s why Snopes is unionizing for transparency from management. @snopes.com

LAPD helicopter telling protesters "I'm going to come to your house" www.latimes.com/california/l...

amid all the discourse on whether or not the pope is woke: i found out in the course of writing this story that the vatican literally helped invent the term "gender ideology" in the 1980s-90s as essentially a catch-all for "politics the catholic church is against" www.snopes.com/news/2025/05...

for @snopes.com: amid a @statnews.com report that trump admin is pulling out of the 30-yr long 'safe to sleep' campaign which reduced SIDS, the american academy of pediatrics says they'll keep the program going alongside partners — but it won't have the same capacity. www.snopes.com/news/2025/05...

when i said 'schools should teach students how to engage with and study misinformation' this is not what i meant, oklahoma!! www.snopes.com/fact-check/o...

great reporting from @hashtagjames.bsky.social for @objectivejournos.bsky.social objectivejournalism.org/2025/04/whit...

found a lost ebt card, took it to a @wadshs.bsky.social office nearby and they said “we don’t do benefits, that’s the other field office, I’m not going to touch that.” like…ok? anyway, i found it at wright park, 4/24. long shot but if it's yours it's at tacoma library main branch.

jd vance's claim that the maryland father deported to el salvador (and now ordered to be brought back by judge) is a "convicted ms-13 gang member" is either a serious misunderstanding of the justice system or a purposeful lie. for @snopes.com www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

and sometimes it means you write about a rumor mike johnson is on grindr www.snopes.com/news/2025/03...

working at snopes means sometimes you're writing about the department of education being eliminated, sometimes you're writing about orange owls www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

after trump honored payton mcnabb, an anti-trans activist who claims a trans athlete hit a volleyball into her face, causing permanent injuries - including partial paralysis - snopes readers asked us to investigate whether her claims hold water. 🧵: 1/6 www.snopes.com/news/2025/03...

this piece from @tinavasquez.bsky.social captures something that's very difficult to put into words: how alienating it can be to be the only reporter of color in a newsroom + the systemic ways we are ignored/put down, even if said newsroom prides itself on 'dei' www.palabranahj.org/archive/the-...

everything you need to know about the SAVE act, priority legislation from House Repubs that would require documentary proof of citizenship in order to vote -- despite overwhelming evidence that non-citizen voting is incredibly rare: www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...

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ask four legal experts the same question and you'll often get four different responses -- the law is a big fan of "it depends." well, i asked four different constitutional law experts if it's legal for trump to abolish USAID w/o congress. the unanimous answer: no. www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...

did the pentagon fail seven audits in a row? it's actually worse than that -- they can't even complete the audit because the records are so badly kept. new from me: www.snopes.com/news/2025/02...

also if you're here because i'm a statehouse reporter for washington state: as of today, i work for snopes! feel free to send a political claim to fact-check or just say hi: [email protected] :)

opened bluesky for the first time since i made this account. where the hell did all of you come from (i know the answer is twitter but omg there are so many of you)

meet jes, a "sassy 12-year-old" w/ fetal alcohol spectrum disorders condition, which impacts nearly every stage of development. there are so many kids like jes -- 870 born in washington every year -- but only one clinic in the state for kids like him. washingtonstatestandard.com/2023/10/23/f...

The prevalence of Long Covid in the US by age Previously unpublished, presented at CDC meeting yesterday

Some Iowa parents are reporting being asked to formally approve their children’s nicknames for use in class as part of Republican lawmakers’ ongoing war against LGBTQ+ topics in education www.huffpost.com/entry/iowa-s...

i'll be on kuow's soundside (94.9) at 12 pm pst (and again at 8 pm pst) to break down why the pace of training is so slow in washington -- please tune in! https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2023/08/07/less-than-a-third-of-wa-police-certified-in-new-deescalation-and-mental-health-training/

I 🩷 my aaja fam that’s all

so do we know at what point we can all start using bluesky like twitter because i really don't want to have to both tweet and skeet every single time i have a thought in my head