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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March 12, 2021
The Republican Congresswoman from Georgia was met with bemusement after remarks she made on the ...
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March 11, 2021
The controversial Republican congresswoman has repeatedly cited a fatal assault as the catalyst ...
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March 10, 2021
Joseph Chaplik was met with bemusement after remarks he made while advocating for a bill to exem ...
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March 9, 2021 (Updated: May 25, 2021)
"In the end, love will return in another way," the renowned author of "The Metamorphosis" was qu ...
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March 5, 2021
Some online observers critical of U.S. President Joe Biden sought to undercut a broadly positive ...
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March 5, 2021 (Updated: March 8, 2021)
Social media media users shared the unfortunate image in March 2021.
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March 4, 2021 (Updated: March 10, 2021)
The influential evangelist published a widely shared open letter, warning followers about "a ver ...
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March 1, 2021
The toy manufacturer is a frequent target of online parodies.
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Feb. 25, 2021
News reports claimed that the woman got more than she bargained for at a Seattle thrift store in ...
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Feb. 24, 2021
Photographs of the supposed new line of Coke cans appeared online after a controversy over anti- ...
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Feb. 24, 2021
A viral tweet purported to quote a tense exchange between Biden's attorney general nominee and R ...
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Feb. 23, 2021
A notorious producer of inflammatory disinformation struck again.
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Feb. 22, 2021 (Updated: Feb. 23, 2021)
Opponents of critical race theory and diversity training railed against Coca-Cola in February 20 ...
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Feb. 12, 2021
In early 2021, social media users enthusiastically shared a post about the ride-hailing company ...
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Feb. 11, 2021
State Assembly Member Cristina Garcia has proposed legislation to combat "stealthing," and leave ...
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Feb. 10, 2021
A Confederate monument in Georgia attributed a stirring quotation to the famous British statesma ...
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Feb. 9, 2021
A viral quotation has been around online for years, but only belatedly was the Hollywood star's ...
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Feb. 8, 2021
Some adherents to the QAnon conspiracy theories believe Trump will begin a second term on March ...
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Feb. 5, 2021
The controversial Republican Congresswoman defended her stance on gun rights by describing her o ...
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Feb. 5, 2021
An anthropomorphic sea cod carrying a fishing net might look like another example of the "fake v ...
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