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. 18, 2017
A bust of Abraham Lincoln was vandalized in Chicago, but it's unclear who did it and when it hap ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 18, 2017
An image purportedly showing a rainbow-colored mountain range in California was digitally manipu ...
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Aug. 17, 2017
An image of Steve Bannon with a bloody lip was a creatively edited — but convincing — photograph ...
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Aug. 17, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing Queen singer Freddie Mercury applying intricate maquillage was ...
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Aug. 16, 2017
Flyers calling for the murder of white children were not created or distributed by an anti-fasci ...
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Aug. 15, 2017
President Trump retweeted, then quickly deleted, a cartoon of a train hitting a CNN reporter, le ...
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Aug. 14, 2017
A doctored photograph appearing to show Trump posing with a white supremacist garnered attention ...
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Aug. 14, 2017
A photograph purportedly showing an Antifa member hitting a police officer has been digitally ma ...
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Aug. 11, 2017
Despite rumors to the contrary, Trump's comments about North Korea were not plagiarized from a C ...
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Aug. 11, 2017
Various outlets misleadingly quoted a 2013 article to blame President Obama for a 2017 roach inf ...
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Aug. 10, 2017
A hoax news article reported that the daughter of former president Barack Obama had been killed.
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Aug. 10, 2017
An image showing a blue whale dwarfing a rowboat under which it appears to be swimming is actual ...
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Aug. 10, 2017
A satirical article about a Mennonite biker gang was mistaken by some for real news.
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Aug. 9, 2017
A photograph of Pope Francis greeting Holocaust survivors is part of a meme containing the basel ...
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Aug. 9, 2017
Stories that the Arizona senator admitted that his "no" vote to repeal parts of the ACA was an a ...
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Aug. 8, 2017
A quote attributed to Pratt about the joys of hunting was created from bits and pieces of variou ...
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Aug. 8, 2017
Although Trump did mention the word "Pizzagate", he was referring to a non-controversy over a lu ...
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Aug. 7, 2017
Despite a series of images showing melted street lights and trees on fire, the temperature in Ku ...
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Aug. 3, 2017
An old news report about Floyd Mayweather's 2010 arrest appeared with a misleading title in July ...
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Aug. 2, 2017
A video purportedly showing a bolt of lightning striking a river actually captures a controlled ...
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