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.
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May 20, 2021
The "Greater Idaho" campaign has won a succession of electoral tests, but still faces an uphill ...
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May 19, 2021
A brief descent into the dark and murky origins of "Powers of Darkness" — a distinctly Nordic ta ...
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May 19, 2021
Internet users marveled at an old photo of a "super moon" in Greece, with the celestial event se ...
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May 18, 2021
The actor's pregnancy with her son, Julian, played a major role in the plot of two seasons of th ...
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May 17, 2021 (Updated: May 19, 2021)
In May 2021, former President Donald Trump made more false claims of electoral fraud, this time ...
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May 17, 2021
During panic buying at gas stations in May 2021, internet users shared what appeared to be a pre ...
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May 16, 2021
Critics of the conservative commentator posted screenshots of an old quote, during a surge in vi ...
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May 14, 2021
Internet users enthusiastically shared stirring scenes from a May 2021 protest against the deten ...
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May 13, 2021
The dictionary came under fire in May 2021, but did the claims against them check out?
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May 12, 2021 (Updated: May 13, 2021)
A remarkably prescient cartoon, dating back almost a century, resurfaced in 2021, as COVID-19 va ...
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May 12, 2021
While India suffered a devastating surge in COVID-19 infections and deaths in 2021, some saw an ...
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May 11, 2021
A roadside billboard in Calvert County that is known for divisive political messages attracted a ...
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May 6, 2021
Andrew Brenner caused a stir with his antics during a May 2021 meeting of the Ohio Controlling B ...
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May 6, 2021
A widely shared Facebook post provoked all manner of reactions in April and May 2021.
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May 5, 2021
In May 2021, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna cited race as the decisive factor in the vastly different ...
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May 3, 2021 (Updated: May 4, 2021)
Evidence is lacking for the authenticity of a zinger included in a 1998 TV series about the Apol ...
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May 3, 2021
In the spring of 2021, readers asked Snopes about a supposed virus attacking cellphones via a fi ...
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April 30, 2021
In April 2021, a widely shared tweet highlighted a distasteful episode involving Mobile, Alabama ...
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April 30, 2021
Left-leaning critics accused the GOP of universal callousness during U.S. President Joe Biden's ...
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April 28, 2021
A widely shared tweet in April 2021 grossly misrepresented the controversial news network's hist ...
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