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Snopes Digest Issue #110: Trump's first 100 days, Pope Francis' funeral — and more

Here's what's happening inside the Snopes newsroom

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Izz LaMagdeleine
May 14, 2025

May 14, 2025・Issue #110

1. Fact-checking highlight: Trump's first 100 days

Let's talk about what's going on with Snopes: the newsroom, the products, the people, and everything and anything that makes Snopes, Snopes. This month, reporter Grace Deng assembled some of the claims we fact-checked over the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term.

It’s been a little more than 100 days since President Donald Trump returned to office for his second term — and the flow of misinformation, both about him and from him, hasn't stopped.

Snopes reporters have been hard at work fact-checking his administration amid a slew of executive orders, tariff announcements and various unprecedented actions. It's not easy to keep up, so we put together a collection of some of our best work fact-checking and explaining Trump's first 100 days in office. Here's a sample of those articles:

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2. Behind the Snopes: Trump’s blue suit at Pope Francis’ funeral

From reporter Laerke Christensen:

As world leaders attended the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican, Snopes fact checkers got to work on the claims that arose from the event.

One such claim was that President Donald Trump's blue suit broke the Vatican's black suit and black tie dress code for men at the event.

While we couldn't independently verify reports of a Vatican dress code, what we did find is this: Pictures from the event showed that it wasn't just Trump who didn't wear black. The photos proved if there was a black suit and tie dress code, the U.S. president wasn't the only one who broke it.

Whether related to Trump, dress codes or something else, whenever you come across a claim that gives you pause, send it our way. We'll do our best to look into it.

3. Overheard at Snopes

We look into a lot of weird stuff at Snopes. We imagine it's very interesting to be a fly on the wall, so we wanted to give you a look at some of the things we have to say when fact-checking.

Overheard: i hope to be famous enough one day to face fake life imprisonment

— Senior Reporter Jordan Liles

4. Since we last met:

From Executive Editor/Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni:

Snopes is looking to bolster its number of staffers in the months ahead, and now, we're happy to announce half-time contractor Anna Rascouët-Paz is becoming a full-time employee. Anna, based in New York City, joined Snopes in February 2024. She brings a formidable economics background (and multi-lingualism) to the newsroom. Prior to Snopes she worked at Bloomberg News, Annual Reviews, and WNYC (Radiolab). We plan to sic her on (yet) more stories about tariffs and inflation.

Mental Health Break

Snopes investigates some grim and depressing claims, so we know how important it is to your mental health to see something silly, funny, or just plain heartwarming. Here are some links that made us smile.

5. Snopes-worthy Media

What Snopes is paying attention to across the web.

— Rokibuz Zaman, Scroll.in

— Charles Bethea, The New Yorker

— Juliet Macur, Jazmine Ulloa, Annie Correal, Kirsten Noyes, Alan Feuer and Dan Barry, The New York Times

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