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Alex Kasprak

@alexkasprak.bsky.social
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formerly science and investigations at snopes. signal: alexkasprak.22

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Pravda Association @pravdapl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢 @washingtonpost.com weaved into a Moroccan propaganda, publishing a story about the new Syrian government’s alleged efforts to dismantle illicit Iranian supply lines running through southern Syria. On the margins, implicating soldiers from #PolisarioFront in the Iran-Hezbollah conspiracy.
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Ilman Paineet @ilmariwalker.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
off the heels of launching their app with an AI element that spawned 60 pages of complaints on the forums. I swear the administration of the site live in their own bubble.
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Mao Mao! @maotenno.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
*pulls the mike over* I don't think any of the TVT contributors are going to see a literal dime for this.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
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Anna Rascouët-Paz @rascouet.com · 06/03/2025
I worked alongside Alex for a year, and in that time, it's wild how much he taught me: invaluable skills and experience and an epic catch for any newsroom. Someone snatch him, fast.
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Personal news: After almost nine years, Snopes and I have parted ways. If you are looking for an experienced writer, creative investigator, and/or science journalist to do investigative work in or outside of journalism, please consider hiring me!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Sir.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
that’s what we in the biz call an “implied yes”
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
In the space of 24 hours, Naomi Wolf has claimed that the fires in LA are an actual war or foreign invasion, a plot to kill people to destroy evidence of Covid vaccine adverse effects, weather manipulation, a deliberate bombing campaign, and mass spraying of mood stabilisers.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Trump says he will end birthright citizenship but he cant. The 14th Amendment is clear. If you are born on American soil, you are an American. Btw my own parents were not US citizens when i was born.
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Liz Borkowski @lizborkowski.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
"Kennedy's claim he 'had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa' stretches credibility." Share this with your Senators and tell them to vote against RFK's nomination! Thanks to @alexkasprak.bsky.social Snopes for the timely investigation. www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
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RFK Jr. Is Trying to Write Himself Out of 2019 Samoan Measles Epidemic
Kennedy's claim he "had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa" stretches credibility.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/12/2024
The problem with this is that you can't rebuild trust in institutions by acknowledging that the cranks have a seed of truth, that just gives power to the cranks that they're going to use to keep tearing down the institutions because their arguments, and this is important, aren't in good faith.
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Lots of horrible and dangerous people are right about "some things." it's even easier when you lie about what you've said in the past, too.
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Allison Neitzel @alineitzelmd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This week Snopes also covered the gaslighting from RFK Jr. et al on the Samoan measles tragedy, see @alexkasprak.bsky.social's latest: www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
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RFK Jr. Is Trying To Write Himself Out of 2019 Samoan Measles Epidemic
Kennedy's claim he "had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa" stretches credibility.
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
RFK Jr.'s assertion that he "had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa" is not credible. My latest for Snopes: www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
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RFK Jr. Is Trying To Write Himself Out of 2019 Samoan Measles Epidemic
Kennedy's claim he "had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa" stretches credibility.
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Farrah💙💙💙 @foxford.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Hum🤔🤣🤣🤣
Contemptible synonym is deplorable
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
J.D. VANCE: Let me use this Hillsdale College Ph.D student's anecdote as a jumping off point. HILLSDALE PH.D GUY: People like J.D. Vance's in-laws are trash and should be deported.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 18/12/2024
men will literally kill a healthcare ceo instead of going to therapy that they can't afford because it was out of network wait how does this meme go again?
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
New from me:This isn't just another case of House Republicans being hyperbolic. In accusing Liz Cheney of criminal behavior, we're seeing legislators providing cover for Trump's revenge campaign
msnbc.com
Opinion | The House GOP wants the FBI to investigate Liz Cheney based on nothing
In an interim report, House Republicans suggested that the FBI should investigate the former congresswoman for her role on the Jan. 6 committee.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I talked to PEN America about What’s Going On Here pen.org/a-reporters-...
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A reporter’s take on the role of disinformation and male grievance in the election - PEN America
We talked to Mother Jones’s Anna Merlan, who covers disinformation, extremism and technology, about the role disinformation played in the election.
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
reminding the world that snopes is not an ice cream store one email at a time
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I never really grasped how revisionist history worked until recent years.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A thing a lot of people don't understand about journalism is that a big part of the job is chasing leads that don't pan out and never get published.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
*looks directly at camera*
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 08/12/2024
a boring point I would make on blocklists is that journalists will often need to follow questionable people, because it can be part of our jobs, so you may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater by subscribing to any list that's based on "everyone who follows X or Y"
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
oh. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Wants Jan. 6 Committee Members Imprisoned
Trump said, “Everybody on that committee … for what they did, yeah, honestly, they should go to jail."
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Snopes @snopes.com · 27/11/2024
Snopes is now on BlueSky! We know there was a Snopes profile with thousands of followers but that wasn't us. @jay.bsky.team and @jessica.bsky.team helped us take down the fake profile and verify a new one.
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fellas, is it gay to find Marissa Tomei hot?
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Paul Matzko @paulmatzko.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Ironically, the people shouting the loudest about free speech and the “censorship-industrial complex” are often the most significant threats to actual freedom of speech. I shouldn’t have to say this, but compelled speech is not free speech.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Scoop: American Values 2024, a PAC that supported RFK Jr.'s run, is holding an event at Mar-a-Lago, charging $25,000 for an individual or $40,000 for a couple to have cocktails and dinner with Kennedy, who they call the "incoming secretary" of HHS. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A super-PAC backing RFK offers paid access to him at Mar-a-Lago
“Cocktails and dinner” with the man who could lead HHS—and who used to decry the scourge of money in politics.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Still from the Simpsons: Boat Giveaway Today (outside police station)
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
this was the only possible outcome
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
You guys are really bad at putting your bingo cards together. This is practically a free space.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 05/12/2024
why not just run them by musk directly
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...
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The Times They Are A-Changin’
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are "confused," "offended," and "frustrated."
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Anna Rascouët-Paz @rascouet.com · 04/12/2024
Hey everyone, welcome. We hunt down fake news every day at snopes.com. Do yourself a favour: go follow my colleagues @alexkasprak.bsky.social and @carolinewazer.bsky.social as well.
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Snopes.com
The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 28/11/2024
argentine girl yelling with speech bubble off the edge of the screen dot meme
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New details are coming to light on three Bulgarian spies arrested in the UK working for Russia. Jan Marsalek (yes, the Wirecard guy) directed them to spy on @christogrozev.bsky.social, and even considered murdering him or kidnapping / transporting him to Moscow www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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‘Sophisticated’ spy ring passed secrets to Russia for three years, UK court told
Court told Bulgarian nationals surveilled targets including a journalist linked to Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/11/2024
Elon Musk identified obscure federal employees by name as he questioned the value of their jobs in recent social media posts, alarming the largest union representing federal workers.
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Workers’ union criticizes Elon Musk for posts identifying federal employees.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I feel like we all moved on way too quickly from RFK Jr's Monday endorsement of a ball connected to your head by a string
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✿Lily cutie ✿ @lilycutie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
To be fair she does look like a chicken.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is just not true when it comes to media—the right has very smartly invested in its ideological project! I wrote a book about this!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/11/2024
Trump FDA pick Marty Makary wrongly predicted the pandemic would be over by April 2021. Later in 2021, hundreds of thousands of people would die in the US from the Omicron wave, one of the worst of the pandemic.
We'll Have Herd Immunity by April
Covid cases have dropped 77% in six weeks. Experts should level with the public about the good news.
By Marty Makary
Feb. 18, 2021 at 12:35 pm ET
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yeah, I’m super happy that someone from a nationalized Oklahoma National Guard will be deciding whether they agree that my kids became citizens upon adoption.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
LOL. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Team Trump Is Furious Hegseth Hid Sex Assault Claim: 'This Is the F-king Pentagon!'
Donald Trump's transition team was furious that Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth didn't inform them about a sexual assault claim against him.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So...the @nytimes.com got ahold of some Gaetz documents, including this chart of payments: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...
A chart of payments linking Matt Gaetz to other individuals tied up the underage sex scandal
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Alex Kasprak @alexkasprak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Even if authentic, the alleged findings have been misrepresented. They would not prove that Khelif "is a man." Instead, they would highlight the reality that, from a scientific standpoint, gender is not actually as binary as some suggest it to be www.snopes.com/news/2024/11...
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Unverified Leak of Imane Khelif's Alleged Medical Records Misrepresented by Viral Headlines
Journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia claims to have obtained medical records proving Khelif is a man. Even if authentic, it's not that simple.
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
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