Alex Kasprak
@alexkasprak.bsky.social
formerly science and investigations at snopes. signal: alexkasprak.22
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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.
I swear the administration of the site live in their own bubble.
October 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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.
I swear the administration of the site live in their own bubble.
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*pulls the mike over*
I don't think any of the TVT contributors are going to see a literal dime for this.
I don't think any of the TVT contributors are going to see a literal dime for this.
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
*pulls the mike over*
I don't think any of the TVT contributors are going to see a literal dime for this.
I don't think any of the TVT contributors are going to see a literal dime for this.
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The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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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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.
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!
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!
March 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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.
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!
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!
March 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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!
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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that’s what we in the biz call an “implied yes”
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Defense, refused to answer a question regarding whether he’d follow an order from Trump to shoot at demonstrators.
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pick for Defense Secretary, Won’t Say If He’d Refuse Order to Shoot Protesters
Trump has stated multiple times his intention to use the military to crush demonstrations he opposes.
truthout.org
January 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
that’s what we in the biz call an “implied yes”
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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.
January 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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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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.
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.
January 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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.
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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New objectively bonkers Rudy Giuliani courtroom sketch just dropped
January 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
New objectively bonkers Rudy Giuliani courtroom sketch just dropped
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"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...
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...
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.
www.snopes.com
January 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"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...
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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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.
In “Good on Paper,” @jerusalem.bsky.social speaks with a pro-vaccine doctor who argues that RFK Jr.’s critics need to acknowledge the “seeds of truth” to some of his critiques, and the fact that many Americans are skeptical of public-health institutions.
RFK Jr. Is Right About Some Things
A pro-vaccine doctor argues that the left should engage with Americans skeptical of public-health rules.
www.theatlantic.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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.
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.
In “Good on Paper,” @jerusalem.bsky.social speaks with a pro-vaccine doctor who argues that RFK Jr.’s critics need to acknowledge the “seeds of truth” to some of his critiques, and the fact that many Americans are skeptical of public-health institutions.
RFK Jr. Is Right About Some Things
A pro-vaccine doctor argues that the left should engage with Americans skeptical of public-health rules.
www.theatlantic.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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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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...
www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
December 31, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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...
www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
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...
www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
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.
www.snopes.com
December 31, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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...
www.snopes.com/news/2024/12...
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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.
HILLSDALE PH.D GUY: People like J.D. Vance's in-laws are trash and should be deported.
December 26, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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.
HILLSDALE PH.D GUY: People like J.D. Vance's in-laws are trash and should be deported.
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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?
December 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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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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
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.
www.msnbc.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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
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I talked to PEN America about What’s Going On Here pen.org/a-reporters-...
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.
pen.org
December 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM
I talked to PEN America about What’s Going On Here pen.org/a-reporters-...
reminding the world that snopes is not an ice cream store one email at a time
December 18, 2024 at 5:22 PM
reminding the world that snopes is not an ice cream store one email at a time
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I never really grasped how revisionist history worked until recent years.
December 15, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I never really grasped how revisionist history worked until recent years.
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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.
Hegseth has said that he got into West Point but didn’t attend.
We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn’t even applied there.
We reached out. Hegseth's spox gave us his acceptance letter.
We didn't publish a story.
That's journalism.
We asked West Pt public affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn’t even applied there.
We reached out. Hegseth's spox gave us his acceptance letter.
We didn't publish a story.
That's journalism.
December 11, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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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*looks directly at camera*
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny: His writings show “suspect does seem to have some ill-will toward corporate America.”
December 9, 2024 at 7:12 PM
*looks directly at camera*
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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"
December 8, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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"