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
Jan. 27, 2020
A viral video was heartwarming enough without the wildly false framing added to it.
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Jan. 24, 2020
In January 2020, members of the public reported receiving suspect SMS messages from scammers pre ...
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Jan. 23, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Jan. 23, 2020
They really have got to stop meeting like this.
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Jan. 22, 2020
An old tweet, accusing the Massachusetts senator of hypocrisy, re-emerged during the 2020 Democr ...
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Jan. 21, 2020
One right-wing observer called U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a liar for claiming that prote ...
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Jan. 20, 2020
Whitefield Academy in Kentucky cited a 15-year-old student's alleged previous code violations an ...
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Jan. 17, 2020
House Bill 2044, which was aimed at events such as "Drag Queen Story Time" in public libraries, ...
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Jan. 15, 2020
A right-wing network grossly distorted the contents of a statement written by agency director Ch ...
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Jan. 14, 2020
The federal regulator did give its approval for a new local anesthetic with the brand name Numbr ...
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Jan. 13, 2020
An article by the anti-Muslim activist Robert Spencer prompted threats and incitements of violen ...
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Jan. 9, 2020
Widely shared Facebook posts provided a poignant reflection in the U.S. in the wake of the assas ...
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Jan. 8, 2020
Multiple websites and social media memes lamented a population-control strategy announced by aut ...
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Jan. 8, 2020
A routine review of content labeled satire.
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Jan. 7, 2020
"A strange thing happened to that word," read a quotation attributed to the former first lady wh ...
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Jan. 7, 2020
An old report, based on anonymous briefings, got a new lease on life amid escalating tensions be ...
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Jan. 3, 2020
A 19-second clip was shared widely in the first week of 2020. Its promoters said it unmasked Joe ...
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Jan. 3, 2020
Relatively obscure websites plagiarized the ACLU's accurate summary of an ongoing court battle i ...
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Jan. 2, 2020
Facebook users widely shared a list of principles that some claimed was a "manifesto" written by ...
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Dec. 31, 2019
A West Virginia television news station reported a product recall in the final days of 2019.
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