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
Oct. 29, 2018
A listing for the mail bomb suspect on MyLife.com underwent a series of edits after his arrest i ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 26, 2018
It's almost as if a single picture of a trash-strewn field gets applied to every event involving ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 26, 2018
Crowd sizing isn't an exact science, but detecting gross exaggerations is often not a difficult ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2018
The Trump administration rolled back a few guidelines of an Obama-era school lunch initiative, b ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2018
An outdated set of photographs purportedly showing member of a refugee caravan traveling via tra ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 25, 2018
An old satire article about a man's digging a tunnel to a pub has been fooling unsuspecting read ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 24, 2018
If this village is ever found at the scene of a crime, the culprit won't be difficult to catch.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 24, 2018
An echo chamber consisting of dozens of Twitter and Facebook accounts pushed an unfounded conspi ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2018
A series of old photographs were re-shared as if they depicted members of a migrant caravan burn ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 23, 2018
An all-purpose crowd shot can seemingly represent any number of different events in different pl ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2018
"Tim Hortons in seven different provinces were forced to close earlier than usual for lack of st ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2018
"You’re crippled with debt one day, and the next it’s all vanished into thin air."
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 22, 2018
A series of photographs showing injured police officers are genuine, but they are several years ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
Despite claims that an image of a marine saluting an American flag was deemed offensive by Twitt ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
A baseless, fear-mongering and factually inaccurate tweet claiming that a group of refugees in H ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 19, 2018
A glacier comparison project documented some stark changes in the Arctic landscape across the sp ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 18, 2018
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Oct. 18, 2018
An article about a secret child supposedly born to JFK and Marilyn Monroe resurfaced online year ...
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Oct. 17, 2018
Barron Trump was once photographed with a chess set, but that doesn't make him a Grandmaster.
Written by: Dan Evon
Oct. 17, 2018
A series of fake tweets have been created and circulated in order to denigrate New York Times jo ...
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