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.
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Oct. 19, 2017
An unfounded online rumor that a Melania-lookalike appeared at an event in the first lady's stea ...
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Oct. 18, 2017
A popular social media image purportedly depicts President Trump getting a spray tan in the Oval ...
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Oct. 17, 2017
So many awards, so few genuine recipients.
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Oct. 17, 2017
The critter needed a good cleaning, regardless.
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Oct. 16, 2017
A photograph showing a home with a green lawn surrounded by charred land is real, but the back s ...
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Oct. 16, 2017
An image purportedly showing a woman who was pierced by a urine icicle originated on a 1990s-era ...
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Oct. 16, 2017
A video showing a little girl hanging on to a door on a windy day is real, but it was not captur ...
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Oct. 14, 2017
The Mississippi River is not "going dry" as it drains into a fault line, despite claims made in ...
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Oct. 13, 2017
In the spirit of bipartisanship and good foreign relations, there's always room for two Thanksgi ...
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Oct. 12, 2017
A woman posted an image of a petition that she says an anonymous individual gave her at the hote ...
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Oct. 11, 2017
A video uses editing and 3D models to make it appear as if the cars routinely miss each other by ...
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Oct. 10, 2017
An image purportedly showing LeBron James wearing a "We march, y'all mad" shirt was digitally ma ...
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Oct. 10, 2017
A distasteful fake news story got a partisan makeover when it was passed from one disreputable w ...
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Oct. 10, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing a foot after "Cinderella Surgery" is actually a digital creation.
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Oct. 9, 2017
Judi Dench once put a temporary tattoo of Harvey Weinstein's initials on her backside as a joke.
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Oct. 4, 2017
A bizarre conspiracy theory holding that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock died in 2013 was base ...
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Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists attempted to tie the alleged Las Vegas mass shooter to an anti-Trump protes ...
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Oct. 2, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing the Army Black Knights team kneeling in protest actually shows ...
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Oct. 2, 2017
A vague yet viral Facebook post accused the network of spreading misinformation.
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Sept. 29, 2017
A doctored photograph purportedly showed a member of the Seattle Seahawks setting a U.S. flag on ...
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