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
March 5, 2016
A fake ad purportedly from The Brady Campaign — a group working to end gun violence — was widely ...
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March 4, 2016
An old legend about a customer's getting cheap parking for his car by using it as bank collatera ...
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March 4, 2016
Various images attempted to connect Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler through slogans promising to m ...
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March 3, 2016
An old photo showing a snake inside the mouth of a fish is being recirculated, this time with a ...
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March 3, 2016
Photos of a "trampoline bridge" in Paris show a concept, not a real architectural structure.
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March 2, 2016
Artwork from an online protest asking Coca-Cola not to sponsor the 2016 Republican National Conv ...
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March 2, 2016
A meme that Trump told Phil Donahue that his high IQ makes it impossible for him to believe in G ...
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March 2, 2016
A photograph of Hillary Clinton being kissed by Senator Robert Byrd has been widely circulated a ...
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March 1, 2016
A viral article that claimed that Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio was moving to a suburban commun ...
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March 1, 2016
An article that reported that New York state had legalized heroin came from a satire site, but a ...
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March 1, 2016
A quote misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi started recirculating after it was tweeted by presidenti ...
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March 1, 2016
A fear mongering article attempted to link an alleged "carbon monoxide spike" with an earthquake ...
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Feb. 29, 2016
An article claimed that Rob Zombie was kicked out of the Academy Awards, but it originated from ...
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Feb. 29, 2016
Viral social media posts and articles claimed (with no supporting evidence) that Nike didn't sig ...
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Feb. 29, 2016
A fabricated quote from Hillary Clinton saying children should be "raised and trained" by the st ...
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Feb. 29, 2016
“Contraception wasn’t very popular in those days,” he told local reporters in his defense.
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Feb. 29, 2016
The video, which showed the "first person to climb the Bean," was almost convincing.
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Feb. 28, 2016
A circulating purported transcript of Hillary Clinton's first speech to Goldman Sachs was origin ...
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Feb. 28, 2016
A video purportedly shows a surfer being towed by a great white shark.
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