Senior Manager of Education Design for @newslitproject. Formerly @snopes.
Chicago
Joined January 2010
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Dan Evon retweeted
Only the first photo is real.
- altered hand in “Trump grab” photo, see original: fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fich…
- bottom row: children were added using AI. See: snopes.com/fact-check/trump-…
Dan Evon retweeted
No they didn't. That image is not from CIA and it's fake, see instagram.com/reel/DJ7peDKhx…
CIA was interested in these topics back in 1980s, see cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia… but they didn't solve consciousness
Dan Evon retweeted
Our global digital investigation team at AFP has been hard at work debunking disinformation about the Iran-Israel war and the US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, in multiple languages.
Here are some English-language claims we have debunked:
factcheck.afp.com/fact-check…
Here's the original video. xitter.cf/SharlaMcBride/status/1…
HAPPENING NOW: Former President Donald Trump teeing off at the LIV Golf ProAm Tournament at Trump National in Virginia @wusa9
Dan Evon retweeted
NEW
As usual for major news events, disinformation on social media is running unchecked during the #LAProtests
So people are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT for fact-checking
The problem is, the bots are making the situation much worse
wired.com/story/grok-chatgpt…
Dan Evon retweeted
If you've been wondering about the reliability of Grok and other AI chatbots as fact-checking tools, especially in breaking news situations, here's an interesting case.
All these answers were given by Grok within the last hour about two photos of National Guard troops.
Dan Evon retweeted
Fascinating piece from @stuartathompson on @dom_lucre and how he works to post engagement farming tweets all day, everyday for what is a pretty minuscule return -- about $55k/year (less, really). It confirms everything you suspected about how this works.
nytimes.com/2025/06/06/techn…
Dan Evon retweeted
An @AFP investigation found hundreds of fabricated Pope Leo XIV speeches, in English and Spanish, underscoring how easily hoaxes created with AI can elude detection and dupe viewers.
YouTube and TikTok have since removed multiple pages posting the fakes.
france24.com/en/live-news/20…
Dan Evon retweeted
Several people have asked what happened to my website. It was simply downgraded to a free Wordpress account: hoaxeye.wordpress.com/ because currently I don't want to pay for hosting and domain name
Dan Evon retweeted
This @CardPrevost X account has quickly added tens of thousands of followers since the election of Pope Leo XIV, but it is a fake impersonating the new pontiff.
Replies to its oldest live post, from 2024, indicate that it was previously using the handle "HanKangOffic."
Dan Evon retweeted
This video, first published by a conspiracy account on TikTok, which claims to show CCTV footage of Keir Starmer and Labour donor Lord Alli kissing, is fake and was likely created with AI.
The timestamp, hands behind the neck and arms make no sense.
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Dan Evon retweeted
This is a fake tweet and was never posted by Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene. That "r/totallyrealtweets" subreddit might be a bit of a clue.
Dan Evon retweeted
You may have seen viral posts like this about Elon Musk saving a seven-year-old girl's life via a Neuralink device implanted into her brain.
The image in the post is AI-generated and there's zero evidence that this story ever happened. It's pure fiction for online engagement.
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Dan Evon retweeted
With the level of confusion Generative AI is now consistently causing in relation to major news events, I feel like it might be time for a comprehensive thread offering a step-by-step guide on spotting and verifying AI-generated content, including AI audio clips, images and videos.
It will take a bit of time, but is probably worth the effort, so stay tuned.
In the meantime, you can find my other verification and media literacy threads here:
How to verify online images using reverse image search:
xitter.cf/Shayan86/status/163395…
How to verify if screenshots of online posts are real or not:
xitter.cf/Shayan86/status/156754…
How to spot spam and scam networks online
xitter.cf/Shayan86/status/163973…
THREAD: This type of Twitter account, right here, is among the worst on this platform.
It's a spam account that manipulates the empathy and compassion of users with the sole purpose of getting maximum engagement and building as large an audience as possible.
Let's take a look.
ALT Screenshot of Jessica Sam's Twitter account
Dan Evon retweeted
@Shayan86 and I have now found a video version of this AI image of Pikachu and it has more telltale signs of generation:
- a police baton appears to shape shift
- video has more obvious AI sheen
- everyone is moving in slow motion, which is typical of AI videos we’ve seen
In 2022, Amber Heard was falsely accused of doing cocaine during her trial against Johnny Depp in a series of "social media posts aiming to discredit her."
There was no evidence that Heard had a cocaine nose.
politifact.com/factchecks/20…
