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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Jan. 13, 2021
The subscription-based, video-sharing service is best known as a platform for sex workers and po ...
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Jan. 13, 2021
The outgoing president found himself frozen out of online platforms for his role in inciting the ...
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Jan. 12, 2021 (Updated: Feb. 1, 2021)
Macabre online speculation surrounded the death of Georgia resident Rosanne Boyland during the J ...
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Jan. 11, 2021
"Pope Francis is currently being held in an unknown prison," reported the Conservative Beaver, h ...
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Jan. 11, 2021
A laptop stolen during the January 2021 U.S. Capitol riots provided fodder for conspiracy theori ...
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Jan. 9, 2021
The man photographed wearing horns at the siege on the U.S. Capitol is apparently not new to pol ...
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Jan. 7, 2021
Jake Angeli, who dressed in horns and furs during the U.S. Capitol riot, was the subject of feve ...
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Jan. 7, 2021
Conspiracy theorists jumped into action when the unmistakable figure of Trump supporter and QAno ...
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Jan. 6, 2021
An extraordinary photograph appeared to capture the effects of a flash-bang grenade going off at ...
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Jan. 6, 2021
Critics of President-elect Joe Biden attributed a hyper-partisan missive to the right-wing music ...
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Jan. 5, 2021
A Facebook meme shared widely in late 2020 and early 2021 asked American readers, "Are you conce ...
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Jan. 5, 2021
Right-leaning observers and commentators reacted angrily to proposals made by the Democratic Hou ...
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Jan. 4, 2021
Social media users shared a pair of bizarre claims about the supposedly unique effects of COVID- ...
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Jan. 4, 2021
Right-leaning observers took aim at Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver after the opening of the f ...
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Dec. 31, 2020
A Republican Congressman saw a conflict of interest involving the Abrams sisters in December 2020.
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Dec. 30, 2020
A widely coshared meme accused the Republican senator from Iowa of rank hypocrisy.
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Dec. 29, 2020
Twitter users enjoyed what appeared to be amusing parallels between the end of 2020 and life a c ...
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Dec. 29, 2020
The remarks attributed to the Senate majority leader were not entirely implausible based on his ...
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Dec. 18, 2020
There is a history of House and Senate members being kicked out, but did the reasons bear any re ...
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Dec. 17, 2020
Those claims cannot both be true.
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