Snopes Debunker - The Grift Empire, Jeffrey Dahmer, and "The Right Stuff" dating app

​ SATURDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker Oct. 8, 2022 Trouble Reading? View in Your Browser This Week: The Grift Empire, Jeffrey Dahmer, and "The Right Stuff" dating app ​ How Max Polyakov Hides His Financial Interest in an International Web of Online Deception Max Polyakov is a British-Ukrainian IT entrepreneur who co-founded, and until recently majority-owned, the Texas-based rocket company and U.S. government contractor Firefly Aerospace. Like so many in technology whose fortunes are tied to early internet marketing and e-commerce, Polyakov has for nearly a decade cast himself as a Ukrainian version of Elon Musk — a “visionary” whose vast wealth benefits the whole of humanity, in part because it goes toward launching his rockets into space. What this series reveals is a global network of shell companies tied to Polyakov or his associates that work in concert to enroll people into recurring credit card subscriptions to deceptive or effectively fake services. Discover what reporter Alex Kasprak found in this 5-part, 18-month investigative series. Read Now Fact Checks and Original Reporting Did Police Return Jeffrey Dahmer’s Victim to Him, Whom He Then Murdered? The real-life Milwaukee serial killer was the subject of a Netflix show in fall 2022.  Read Story. Did Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday Say ‘I’m Your Huckle Bearer,’ Not ‘Huckleberry’? The famous line from "Tombstone" has some people murmuring about the "Mandela Effect." Read Story. Are There No Women Signing Up for Conservative Dating App? Love transcends all ... except politics, apparently. Read Story. Latest Fact Checks News Biden Pardons Thousands for ‘Simple Possession’ of Marijuana President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana under federal law. Read More The Onion and the Supreme Court. Not a Parody The Onion has some serious things to say in defense of parody. Read More Fish Fossil Catch from China Includes Oldest Teeth Ever A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. Read More

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