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.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 16, 2020
The former Republican Congressman responded with outrage at remarks the Democratic House Speaker ...
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Dec. 16, 2020
The image was featured in a YouTube video that garnered nearly 3 million views in 2020.
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Dec. 15, 2020
Jokes can feel alien to some.
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Dec. 15, 2020
A viral Facebook post, and online articles, reported a potentially significant class action laws ...
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Dec. 14, 2020
The "Mentos effect" is a real phenomenon, but can it really cause this much damage?
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Dec. 14, 2020
Did the idea come from the mind of a dystopian satirist? Or, an American TV executive?
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Dec. 14, 2020
Right-leaning observers responded with outrage at photographs of Champ and Major.
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Dec. 11, 2020
An interesting legal claim stirred up plenty of debate on TikTok in December 2020.
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Dec. 11, 2020
A viral picture of a roomful of tablets alluded to the widespread emotional devastation caused b ...
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Dec. 10, 2020
A right-wing social media activist saw evidence of conspiracy where there was none in photograph ...
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Dec. 10, 2020
A TikTok user put a new spin on an age-old conspiracy theory.
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Dec. 10, 2020
Internet users reacted with a mix of bemusement and delight at video clips taken from Lawson's B ...
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Dec. 9, 2020
A widely shared meme placed the deaths caused by COVID-19 in stark historical context.
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Dec. 8, 2020
Conspiracy theorists resorted to blatant digital manipulation to attack the U.S. president-elect ...
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Dec. 8, 2020 (Updated: Jan. 19, 2021)
Jones was controversially fired from her job with the Florida Department of Health in May 2020.
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Dec. 8, 2020
In late 2020, the world-famous actor and director was quoted as calling the outgoing president a ...
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Dec. 7, 2020
The world-famous London museum had some fun at the expense of the outgoing U.S. president in Nov ...
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Dec. 7, 2020
Ugur Sahin, who led the team that helped find a vaccine breakthrough, definitely has a remarkabl ...
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Dec. 4, 2020
As shocking as that figure was, it wasn't even the country's highest death rate from the virus i ...
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Dec. 4, 2020
In late 2020, internet users highlighted a shocking episode from the legendary blues guitarist's ...
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