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
March 3, 2020
An unreliable website furthered rumors about the pontiff's health in early 2020.
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March 2, 2020
The 2020 presidential candidate's account of her time as a speech therapist in Riverdale, New Je ...
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Feb. 27, 2020
The former first lady thanked Weinstein for his role in a White House student film event — four ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 (Updated: March 3, 2020)
The former vice president has repeatedly claimed to have been arrested while attempting to visit ...
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Feb. 24, 2020
The Hollywood icon supported the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
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Feb. 21, 2020 (Updated: Feb. 25, 2020)
The billionaire businessman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate faced renewed criticism f ...
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Feb. 19, 2020
Left-leaning critics of U.S. President Donald Trump rejected his claims to overseeing unpreceden ...
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Feb. 19, 2020
Right-leaning websites celebrated the findings of a February 2020 report by the International En ...
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Feb. 18, 2020
A People's Daily video claiming to show "full-front disinfection work" in Wuhan included footage ...
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Feb. 18, 2020
South Dakota's Republican governor accused the 2020 presidential candidate of "pompous ignorance ...
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Feb. 13, 2020
After U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up President Donald Trump's State of the Union spee ...
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Feb. 12, 2020
Fox News host Tucker Carlson called an immigration reform bill "the most radical single piece of ...
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Feb. 10, 2020
As the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries began to heat up, so did the scrutiny on candidate ...
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Feb. 7, 2020
Some detractors hinted at a degree of irony in this quote after the conservative radio host anno ...
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Feb. 5, 2020
A widely shared meme contained several key falsehoods about the independent Vermont senator's fo ...
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Jan. 31, 2020
A few websites reported, with a note of outrage, that New York state was charging an annual fee ...
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Jan. 31, 2020
A viral social media post erroneously advised the public to "keep your throat moist" in order to ...
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Jan. 30, 2020
Readers inquired about the details surrounding the horrific execution of the Rev. Lawan Andimi i ...
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Jan. 28, 2020
The controversial televangelist engendered criticism and controversy for remarks she made during ...
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Jan. 28, 2020
An eerily prescient tweet gained prominence after the tragic demise of basketball legend Kobe Br ...
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