Dan Evon
Dan Evon worked at Snopes between October 2014 and July 2022. Evon is a Chicago-based writer who has been sifting through the sludge of social media since 2009. Prior to joining the editorial staff at Snopes.com, he was the editor-in-chief of Social News Daily, a senior writer for The Inquisitr, and covered motorcycle racing for All About Bikes Magazine.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 27, 2018
A doctored photograph purportedly showing John McCain posing with terrorist Osama Bin Laden was ...
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Aug. 24, 2018
An image purportedly showing Colin Kaepernick as the "Person of the Year" on the cover of Time M ...
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Aug. 24, 2018
The chyron 'Trump Worried About Pecker Leaking' was created by an internet prankster, not the gr ...
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Aug. 23, 2018
A pinch of fake news, a smidgen of flawed reading comprehension, and a dash of Islamophobic fear ...
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Aug. 22, 2018
A years-old video created by the satirical Onion website was mistaken for genuine by some viewers.
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Aug. 22, 2018
And under what unusual circumstances might an airliner end up in such a position?
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Aug. 21, 2018
An image purportedly showing a logically challenged sign in support of President Trump is actual ...
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Aug. 21, 2018
This theory was first popularized in a 2000 Canadian Medical Association Journal article.
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Aug. 20, 2018
"Robot! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 20, 2018
An image of two police officers washing the dishes after they cooked a meal for a sick mother's ...
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Aug. 20, 2018
An image purportedly showing a giant blue whale sighted near Jennette's Pier in North Carolina i ...
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Aug. 17, 2018
A video showing a man falling down a flight of stairs features computer animated graphics and wa ...
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Aug. 17, 2018
Fox News accidentally included a photograph of singer Patti LaBelle instead of Aretha Franklin a ...
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Aug. 17, 2018
A photograph purportedly showing a man wearing a ridiculous pro-Trump shirt was a digital manipu ...
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Aug. 16, 2018
A video purportedly showing refugees looting a café in Spain actually captures an incident from ...
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Aug. 16, 2018
A meme showing political graffiti scrawled on Mount Rushmore originated with a Facebook trolling ...
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Aug. 15, 2018
Omarosa Manigault said that 600 murders took place in Chicago during the second weekend of Augus ...
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Aug. 15, 2018
A video showing Secret Service surrounding Donald Trump at a 2016 rally is real, but the audio p ...
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Aug. 14, 2018
A video of a large leatherback turtle on a beach provided a misleading impression of the animal' ...
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Aug. 14, 2018
An image of a shockingly inaccurate map may have once appeared in a textbook, but the current ve ...
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