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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.

Person, Human, Crowd

No, Bill Lee Did Not Sanction 'Quarantine Camps' for Unvaccinated Tennesseans

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 12, 2021

Pastor Greg Locke either fundamentally misunderstood, or grossly misrepresented, the contents of ...

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Advertisement, Poster, Flyer

RECALL: Serenade Chicken Linked to Salmonella Outbreak

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 11, 2021

In the spring and summer of 2021, federal agencies investigated a salmonella outbreak that sicke ...

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Person, Human, Clothing

Did Lionel Messi Officially Sign for Paris Saint-Germain?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 10, 2021

Rumors and speculation surrounded the future of the Argentine soccer star, one of the greatest o ...

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Person, Human, Accessories

Did Netflix Announce Catherine Zeta-Jones Joined 'Addams Family' Series 'Wednesday'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 10, 2021

The eight-episode series will center around the Addams family's morbid anti-hero daughter Wednesday.

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Face, Person, Human

Actor Christina Applegate Announces Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 10, 2021

The "Anchorman" and "Dead to Me" star said "it's been a tough road," in an announcement made on ...

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Injection, Person, Human

Did Anti-Vaccine Radio Host Dick Farrel Die of COVID-19?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 9, 2021

The right-wing radio host had repeatedly expressed skepticism about the virus, and opposition to ...

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Face, Person, Human

Did George Bernard Shaw Write 'Beware False Knowledge'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 9, 2021

The line struck a chord with hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in August 2021.

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Person, Human, Crowd

Did Jim Carrey Say 'Close Down National Media for 30 Days'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 9, 2021

We found no record of his having uttered those words, even though he has been a high-profile Hol ...

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Person, Human, Shoe

Did Netflix Announce Official Release Date for 'Stranger Things' Season 4?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 7, 2021

Fans of the hit science fiction series have already waited two years for the next installment.

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Person, Human, Glasses

Did Bill Gates Say Meeting Jeffrey Epstein Was a 'Huge Mistake'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 7, 2021

The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist has faced difficult questions over the n ...

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Mobile Phone, Cell Phone, Phone

Did Apple Say It Would Scan iPhones for Child Sexual Abuse Imagery?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 7, 2021 (Updated: Sept. 3, 2021)

The tech giant has previously resisted government and law enforcement calls for greater access t ...

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Sitting, Person, Human

No, Bill Clinton Was Not Forced to Apologize for 'Stranger Things' Experiments

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 7, 2021

A widely-shared TikTok video added the former president to the already baseless "Montauk Project ...

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Person, Human, Musician

Did Bill Burr Philosophize About 'Sleeping on a Futon When You're 30'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 5, 2021

A popular meme quoted the stand-up comic philosophizing about risk, reward, and futons.

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Text, Paper, Letter

Dallas Justice Now: How an Apparent Hoax (Briefly) Inflamed America's Racial Culture War

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 5, 2021 (Updated: Aug. 16, 2021)

Right-wing commentators seized upon a "college pledge" sent to white residents of a wealthy Dall ...

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Audience, Person, Crowd

Did Ex-Judge Roy Moore Write Anti-Abortion Poem 'America the Beautiful'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Aug. 2, 2021

"You think that God’s not angry, that our land’s a moral slum?" the poem asks. But who actually ...

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Person, Human, Mascot

Did Twitter User Scold Olympic Champion Shooter for One-Handed Stance?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

July 30, 2021

Vitalina Batsarashkina dominated the women's pistol shooting events at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, ...

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Person, Human, Finger

Did Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina Compete at 8 Olympics?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

July 29, 2021

The stories behind the Uzbek gymnast's extraordinary career are even more remarkable than the nu ...

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Food, Snack

Yes, the Kellogg's Cereal Class Action Lawsuit is Real

Written by: Dan MacGuill

July 28, 2021

Plaintiffs accused the company of deceptive marketing by describing their sugary cereals as "hea ...

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Clothing, Apparel, Riding Boot

No, French President Macron's Security Detail Did Not Quit Over COVID-19 Rules

Written by: Dan MacGuill

July 27, 2021

Right-wing American sources seized upon baseless claims made by a French politician, in July 2021.

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Person, Human, Sport

Why Did Simone Biles Withdraw From the Olympics Gymnastics Team Final?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

July 26, 2021 (Updated: July 27, 2021)

Discrepancies emerged, on July 27, 2021, over the exact reason or reasons for the star gymnast's ...

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