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
Dec. 31, 2019
Yet another sex trafficking scare was promoted on social media in late 2019.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 27, 2019
A photograph of Trump, posted online by a Republican congressman, prompted much speculation abou ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 26, 2019
The president raised eyebrows in December 2019 with a somewhat baffling attack on the use of win ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 26, 2019
The former New York mayor landed in hot water over a vendor's reported use of prison workers to ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 24, 2019
During the festival of Hanukkah in December 2019, social media users shared a powerful image fro ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 24, 2019
Right-leaning websites accurately quoted something Wolf said during a stand-up comedy performance.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 23, 2019
In response to Christianity Today's blistering criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump, some re ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 20, 2019
In December 2019, several news reports failed to properly explain to readers the impact of "habi ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 18, 2019
Activists and Congressional Democrats encouraged the public to voice their opposition to the pro ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 16, 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 13, 2019
The prominent Labour Party MP appeared to have an unusual wardrobe malfunction in December 2019.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 12, 2019
Multiple news websites from around the world were taken in by a crude hoax in December 2019.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 12, 2019
Two waves of social media posts cast doubt in the minds of some over the authenticity of a story ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 11, 2019
A bogus Facebook post in late 2019 was just the latest sex trafficking scare to emerge from Kent ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 10, 2019
Rumors of the rapper's demise spread in December 2019 after posts on "prank" news websites.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 9, 2019
"People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times," the president was reported to have said.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 6, 2019
A viral Facebook post appears to have been inspired by a 2016 book about the Hollywood icon's wa ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 6, 2019
A right-leaning website grossly misrepresented what a two-year-old New York Times article actual ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 4, 2019
Conspiracy theorists scraped another barrel in their attempt to tie Bill and Hillary Clinton to ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 4, 2019
A Starbucks in Glenpool, Oklahoma, become the center of controversy in late 2019.
Page: 28