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
Aug. 27, 2020
Online commentators and social media users sought to undermine protests sparked by the police sh ...
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Aug. 25, 2020
The nationwide coin shortage in 2020 caused retailers to implement policies on change that occas ...
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Aug. 24, 2020
Misinformation surrounded one of the most controversial topics in the 2020 general election — ma ...
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Aug. 24, 2020
Not every project related to racial justice is automatically linked to the Black Lives Matter mo ...
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Aug. 21, 2020
U.S. Senate Bill 311 provoked widely shared social media posts that targeted Democratic and Inde ...
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Aug. 19, 2020
Joe Biden's campaign denounced what it called a "failed, disingenuous, pathetic and off-topic" a ...
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Aug. 18, 2020
A political crisis surrounding the Postal Service inspired some novel campaigning techniques in ...
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Aug. 17, 2020
An erroneous Facebook post swept across various countries in August 2020.
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Aug. 14, 2020
Claims about the president's past pronouncements reemerged in August 2020, when Joe Biden named ...
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Aug. 13, 2020
Right-leaning websites jumped into action after Biden announced Harris as his vice-presidential ...
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Aug. 12, 2020
Trump's reelection campaign called Harris "a corrupt former California Attorney General." But di ...
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Aug. 11, 2020 (Updated: Aug. 12, 2020)
Even without a COVID-19 vaccine yet available, readers asked whether individuals who refused one ...
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Aug. 10, 2020
The president articulated several different plans for payroll taxes during a press conference at ...
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Aug. 7, 2020
An unreliable website with a penchant for publishing clickbait and repackaged satire appeared to ...
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Aug. 7, 2020
A viral Facebook post recounted several supposed gestures of generosity by the U.S. president.
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Aug. 6, 2020
Fear-mongering Facebook memes misrepresented the position articulated by the presumptive Democra ...
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Aug. 5, 2020
A website with a penchant for attention-grabbing headlines about life in Canada struck again in ...
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Aug. 5, 2020
Plenty of outrage, but very little evidence, surrounded a widely shared meme in the summer of 2020.
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Aug. 5, 2020
English-language news outlets shared a set of reports that emerged from Hunan and Henan province ...
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July 29, 2020
Several articles rushed to condemn the New Jersey university's English department in response to ...
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