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
Oct. 29, 2020
Critics of the president latched onto his use of the phrase "Joe's shot," in a speech in October ...
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Oct. 28, 2020
The actor lent his distinctive voice to pro-Biden ads in October 2020.
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Oct. 27, 2020
The false and distasteful rumor emerged from some dark corners of the internet in October 2020.
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Oct. 26, 2020
A commonly cited statistic had a resurgence on social media in October 2020.
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Oct. 26, 2020
Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter f ...
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Oct. 23, 2020
"A perfect metaphor for the Trump presidency," critics claimed. What really happened?
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Oct. 22, 2020
A Trump spokesperson claimed the Biden campaign withdrew an ad featuring Michigan businessman Jo ...
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Oct. 21, 2020
A meme implied a nefarious link between financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and ...
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Oct. 20, 2020
Activist Isabella DeLuca claimed she was "punched in the face and choked by two women" simply fo ...
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Oct. 16, 2020
The president, trailing Biden in the polls, repeatedly promoted baseless, inflammatory claims th ...
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Oct. 13, 2020
Amy Thorn, also known as Amy Johnson Ford, rose to prominence in August 2020, when she praised P ...
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Oct. 12, 2020
Critics claimed a viral photograph showed the former vice president "taking a knee" at an Octobe ...
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Oct. 9, 2020
The controversial actor and left-wing activist provoked an outraged response in October 2020.
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Oct. 9, 2020
The Trump campaign has hammered the Democratic candidate on fracking and fossil fuels. But what ...
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Oct. 7, 2020
The five letters were displayed on private property, and their owner's identity is not known.
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Oct. 7, 2020
The Trump campaign seemed keen to recreate Hillary Clinton's infamous "deplorables" moment, but ...
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Oct. 6, 2020
Widely shared social media posts, based on news reports, accused the former New Jersey governor ...
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Oct. 6, 2020
A widely shared tweet, supposedly written in mid-September, predicted that "Trump’s October surp ...
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Oct. 1, 2020
The emails were sent on the day after September 30, so we can see where the confusion arose.
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Oct. 1, 2020
"The problem is on the Left. And Biden refuses to talk about it," President Trump claimed in Sep ...
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