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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April 28, 2021
In April 2021, many readers became aware of a remarkable biographical link between the anti-raci ...
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April 26, 2021
In April 2021, reports detailed how an overdue "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" video led to a felony ...
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April 23, 2021
The American Red Cross told Snopes it had received multiple inquiries from concerned would-be do ...
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April 22, 2021
In April 2021, the New Jersey company announced that certain batches of vitafusion supplement gu ...
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April 22, 2021
A widely-shared tweet in April 2021 alluded to a striking loophole in U.S. consumer safety regul ...
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April 21, 2021
Many online observers criticized what they presented as a crass play on words by the NFL franchi ...
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April 20, 2021
A plan by congressional Democrats to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 seats touched upon ...
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April 19, 2021
Saline, or sodium chloride solution, is used to dilute some COVID-19 vaccines before injection.
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April 16, 2021
Some observers responded with outrage after the release of video footage showing a Chicago polic ...
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April 15, 2021
Lindell, a prominent Trump ally who was banned from Twitter earlier in 2021, has also championed ...
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April 14, 2021
"We're number one" isn't always a point of pride.
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April 14, 2021
The country of Hitler's birth has famously strict prohibitions on glorifying and condoning Nazism.
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April 12, 2021
A meme shared widely in the spring of 2021 showed a lack of scientific understanding and an abse ...
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April 12, 2021
According to a widely-shared screenshot, the FBI mused "Is he doing interviews now?" after the D ...
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April 9, 2021
The Republican senator from Florida was quoted as saying that MLB's decision to move the All-Sta ...
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April 9, 2021
An old quote attributed to the Real Madrid striker, who is of Algerian descent, gained prominenc ...
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April 8, 2021
A viral Facebook post in April 2021 described a once common, but now widely forgotten American c ...
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April 8, 2021
Unscrupulous online advertisers claimed that the Hollywood star had remarried after the death of ...
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April 7, 2021
Conspiracy theorists and anti-vaccine social media users grossly misrepresented an interview giv ...
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April 7, 2021
Remarks attributed to U.S. President Joe Biden saw a resurgence in social media sharing in April ...
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