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
Sept. 14, 2020
False rumors were spread on social media in order to capitalize on heightened panic about pedoph ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 12, 2020
Adding a color background to a baseless statement doesn't make it any more factual.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 10, 2020
A non-peer reviewed paper took off on the internet ... and then came the critics.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2020
While the president repeatedly downplayed the deadliness of COVID-19 in public, he acknowledged ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2020
Creating a fake tweet is surprisingly easy.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 9, 2020
Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest caused some surreal scenes in 2020.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2020
The truth was even stranger than the fiction.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2020
Credible reports that Trump called fallen soldiers "losers" and "suckers" were followed by incre ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 8, 2020
Several boats did sink during a parade for U.S. President Donald Trump in September 2020.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2020
A QAnon supporter and congressional candidate's Facebook post was removed for violating the soci ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 4, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he "never called John (McCain) a loser," but that isn't true.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 3, 2020
As far as we can tell, the University of Alabama football coach has not officially endorsed eith ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 3, 2020
Repeating a lie ad nauseam does not make it any more true.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 2, 2020 (Updated: Oct. 20, 2020)
A photograph truly shows a large group of people gathered in Germany … in 1997 … for a music fes ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 1, 2020
The Facebook page for supporters of law enforcement has a history of posting controversial content.
Written by: Dan Evon
Sept. 1, 2020
The idiom "out of whole cloth" can be traced back to false advertisements from garment sellers i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 31, 2020
The manipulated clip was shared by President Trump's social media director.
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 31, 2020
A video of a fight in Kenosha, Wisconsin, supposedly shows the 17-year-old accused of killing tw ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 28, 2020
Also, wouldn't any footage showing 2020 protests in the U.S. be more accurately labeled "Trump's ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Aug. 27, 2020
The 17-year-old charged with first-degree intentional homicide after two protesters were killed ...
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