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
Sept. 30, 2020 (Updated: Oct. 20, 2020)
"Who do you want me to condemn? Who?" the president asked Fox News moderator Chris Wallace, in a ...
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Sept. 29, 2020
The allegations against Joe Biden's son are complicated, but the report is also flawed in import ...
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Sept. 23, 2020
Allegations of "hypocrisy" were ample in September 2020 as U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to ...
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Sept. 22, 2020
In reality, Biden used the hand gesture to illustrate his assertion that massive corporations an ...
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Sept. 22, 2020
The president's former campaign adviser, convicted for lying to Congress, joined conspiracy theo ...
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Sept. 21, 2020
"Was he joking?" has become a frequent question for reporters, and voters, since Trump began his ...
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Sept. 21, 2020
The automated political advocacy service Resistbot ran another campaign following the death of U ...
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Sept. 18, 2020
Anti-racism is not synonymous with the Black Lives Matter movement, and vice versa.
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Sept. 17, 2020
BLMManifesto.com appears intended to damage and discredit the wider movement against racial inju ...
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Sept. 17, 2020
Beware of still images taken from television news reports.
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Sept. 16, 2020
We looked into the criteria for a person to be nominated for a Nobel (not "Noble") Peace Prize. ...
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Sept. 15, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump promoted the baseless smear — and the anonymous account behind it — ...
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Sept. 12, 2020
Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Joe Jackson, a Medal of Honor recipient, died at age 95 in Januar ...
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Sept. 10, 2020
Trump's promotion of @AlwaysActions provided a fascinating insight into the information (and dis ...
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Sept. 8, 2020
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate obtained support from some high-profile GOP figures.
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Sept. 4, 2020
The Twitter account @lifeisasoph briefly trended in August 2020, before it was suspended.
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Sept. 3, 2020
This hair appointment engendered widespread controversy in summer of 2020.
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Sept. 2, 2020
Conservative websites and commentators misrepresented internal prosecutorial guidelines leaked i ...
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Sept. 1, 2020
The 88 year-old country music legend sent readers to Snopes with an Instagram post in August 2020.
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Aug. 27, 2020
The sign was referring to the California U.S. senator who made history as the first Black woman ...
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