Dan MacGuill
Dan Mac Guill worked at Snopes between May 2017 and August 2022. Mac Guill is a journalist and fact-checker from Dublin, Ireland, based in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He ran FactCheck on TheJournal.ie - the Republic of Ireland's first dedicated fact-checking service - from 2016 to 2017, and worked as a reporter for TheJournal.ie from 2014. Before that, he was Deputy Editor of The Local France in Paris. He has a BA in philosophy from the University of Scranton and an MA in political science from Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 17, 2022
After a series of horrific mass shootings and a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling, where are the n ...
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Aug. 5, 2022
Sooner or later, a completely unfounded death hoax is visited upon most celebrities.
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July 27, 2022
A widely shared Facebook post, from July 2022, was inaccurate and illogical in several ways.
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July 8, 2022
Critics of the outgoing Conservative U.K. prime minister experienced considerable schadenfreude ...
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July 8, 2022
In the post-Roe summer of 2022, critics highlighted the former Delaware senator's past record on ...
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July 6, 2022
The claim went viral in the days following the demise of Roe v. Wade.
Written by: Dan MacGuill Bethania Palma Nur Ibrahim
July 5, 2022
Here's the legal status of abortion in all 50 states.
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June 24, 2022
Some states enacted laws to automatically ban or restrict abortion in anticipation of a U.S. Sup ...
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June 24, 2022
Snopes tracked misinformation related to the historic ruling on abortion and compiled resources ...
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June 23, 2022
Outraged social media posts went viral after a "Pride reading time" event at Pine Valley Library ...
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June 22, 2022
The former president appeared to be feeling the heat from House committee hearings over the Jan. ...
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June 22, 2022
Will prosecutors take the unprecedented and explosive step of criminally prosecuting a former U. ...
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June 21, 2022
Beware of "official statements" by the former president, and read on for tips on how to identify ...
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June 16, 2022
Here's how to tell whether a "Statement by Donald J. Trump" is actually a statement by Donald J. ...
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June 14, 2022
A "family business" is a familial operation at which someone is employed, or they have authority ...
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June 10, 2022
In June 2022, the Platinum Jubilee revived a disturbing old anecdote that suggested casual racis ...
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June 10, 2022
The Georgia Republican tripped over her words while defending the rights o ...
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June 2, 2022
Conspiracy theorists reached unimaginable new lows in response to the grief of parents whose chi ...
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May 31, 2022
The Uvalde massacre in May 2022 focused attention, once again, on the ease of availability of gu ...
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May 25, 2022
"It's literally me," one falsely accused woman wrote online. "Stop fucking spreading this image ...
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