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
April 12, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a woman walking down a deserted shopping aisle in Venezuela was ...
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April 11, 2016
An article that reported Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi were cousins originated with a fake news w ...
Written by: Dan Evon
April 11, 2016 (Updated: Nov. 29, 2023)
A snowboarder purportedly discovered from watching video of herself that she was being chased by ...
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April 11, 2016
The Republican presidential candidate confirmed in an interview that two of his children aren't ...
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April 11, 2016
Fake news reports that recently-deceased country music legend Merle Haggard left his entire esta ...
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April 5, 2016
A photo purportedly showing a group of college students with the amount of debt they're in writt ...
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April 5, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a horse with wolf-like markings on its coat is a digital creation.
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April 5, 2016
A vintage photograph of two men sitting on Harley-Davidson motorcycles is said to picture the co ...
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April 4, 2016
Reports that Coca-Cola is recalling Dasani water products after a "clear parasite" was found in ...
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April 4, 2016
Republican presidential candidate John Kasich said that he would abolish teachers' lounges, but ...
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April 4, 2016
A photograph purportedly showing a 736-pound catch adds to the collection of urban legends about ...
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April 3, 2016
"We don’t think that tattoos fit into the image of a wholesome Disney family."
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April 1, 2016
Several "too good to be true" fake news articles published on April Fools' Day reported that Hil ...
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April 1, 2016
A quote from a fake news article is frequently circulated as a genuine quote from the Democratic ...
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April 1, 2016
The Weather Channel played an April Fool's Day joke on their viewers with the announcement that ...
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April 1, 2016
London's famous clock has not gone unabashedly commercial.
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April 1, 2016
A video purportedly showing the presidential candidate saying that his campaign had been an Apri ...
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March 31, 2016
A video showing President Obama boarding a helicopter without saluting a nearby Marine has been ...
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March 31, 2016
An article reporting that the Trader Joe's grocery chain would be closing all of their stores by ...
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March 31, 2016
A YouTube conspiracy theory video claims that a clip from "Arrested Development" proves that the ...
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