Snopes.com - Rumors about Alexa telling a girl to touch a penny to an electrical socket, an underwater video, and NASA

​ THURSDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker Dec. 30, 2021 Today: Rumors about Alexa telling a girl to touch a penny to an electrical socket, an underwater video, and NASA ​ Did Alexa Challenge a Girl to Touch a Penny to an Electrical Socket? Yesterday, Snopes received inquiries that asked if Alexa, the voice of Amazon’s Echo devices, really did tell a 10-year-old girl to touch a penny to the exposed prongs of a plug halfway inserted into an electrical socket, as part of a “penny challenge.” Jordan Liles reports. Read More Fact Checks and Original Reporting Are These Fishermen Walking Upside Down Underwater? A video featuring an optical illusion underwater has been popular for years. Read Story. Did NASA Fund Theological Research To Study How Humans Would React to Aliens? The total price tag was said to total more than $1.1 million. Read Story. Snopes in 2021: A Collection of Unexpectedly True Rumors Checks notes — yep, that actually happened. Read Story. View Latest Fact Checks Skip the Clickbait We debunk the rumors behind misleading online advertisements. Such ads lead to slideshow articles that require a seemingly endless number of "next page" clicks. We've flipped through thousands of pages to save our readers a bit of time. Read More News Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted in Epstein Sex Abuse Case Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. Read More New COVID-19 Cases in US Soar to Highest Levels on Record More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record. Read More Final Goodbye: Recalling Influential People Who Died in 2021 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are among the many noteworthy people who died in 2021. Read More

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