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. 4, 2020
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Trump had commemorated World AIDS Da ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 2, 2020
Amid COVID-19 lockdown rules in 2020, social media users appeared to "discover" a brand new quot ...
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Dec. 1, 2020
Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, what's the difference?
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Nov. 24, 2020
It was the latest in a long litany of quotations falsely attributed to the famous Georgia comedian.
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Nov. 24, 2020
Online activists made significant errors while highlighting what they claimed were discrepancies ...
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Nov. 20, 2020 (Updated: Dec. 29, 2020)
Right-wing activists and commentators, including President Trump's sons and lawyers, targeted an ...
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Nov. 18, 2020 (Updated: Nov. 19, 2020)
A widely shared meme mocked statements made by the president's personal attorney in a federal co ...
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Nov. 17, 2020
Republican lawmakers and right-leaning commentators seized upon remarks made by the New York Dem ...
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Nov. 16, 2020
Crowd sizes are notoriously difficult to estimate, but let's take a look.
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Nov. 16, 2020
Supporters of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump enthusiastically shared a letter attributed t ...
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Nov. 14, 2020
Of 253 Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate, only 17 had acknowledged Joe Biden as president ...
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Nov. 9, 2020 (Updated: Nov. 18, 2020)
The 45th president made history, both good and bad, in the 2020 election.
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Nov. 5, 2020 (Updated: Nov. 7, 2020)
According to the Fulton County elections director, a poll worker allegedly seen discarding a bal ...
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Nov. 5, 2020
More evidence is required before this claim can be rated in a traditional Snopes fact check, but ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 4, 2020
"This is an embarrassment to our country," Trump said, before falsely claiming he had already wo ...
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Nov. 3, 2020
Donald Trump Jr. and others seized upon social media posts that read, "I've thrown out over a hu ...
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Nov. 3, 2020
More evidence is required before this claim can be rated in a traditional Snopes fact check, but ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 3, 2020
More evidence is required before this claim can be rated in a traditional Snopes fact check, but ...
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Nov. 2, 2020
The film icon, who died in October 2020, expressed some disturbing views about violence towards ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 30, 2020
Turns out the presidential transition process is complicated, even when it goes smoothly.
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