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. 3, 2019
The U.S. president engaged in some wishful thinking about a major interview his Ukrainian counte ...
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Nov. 29, 2019
A case of life imitating art imitating life.
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Nov. 29, 2019
Highly dubious websites posted false and distasteful articles that prompted unwarranted concern ...
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Nov. 27, 2019
The Florida pastor used his online channel TruNews to launch a virulently anti-Semitic attack on ...
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Nov. 27, 2019
The New Jersey-based, arts-and-crafts retail chain has been in business for some 34 years.
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Nov. 26, 2019
Trump signed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act in November 2019, banning several spe ...
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Nov. 25, 2019
A dubious website made exaggerated and over-simplified claims about a complicated, long-running ...
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Nov. 21, 2019
A screenwriter's anecdote about a pitch meeting in 1994 prompted outrage and disbelief in Novemb ...
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Nov. 20, 2019
Jackson Kernion, a doctoral student in philosophy, became the focus of online outrage after he p ...
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Nov. 19, 2019
News reports left out important context about a major announcement by the fast food giant in Nov ...
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Nov. 19, 2019
A YouTube channel used a clickbait headline to spread misinformation about the actor.
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Nov. 18, 2019
A right-leaning social media activist grossly exaggerated the environmental impact of a San Fran ...
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Nov. 18, 2019
A blog post on a relatively obscure, anti-feminist website provoked widespread outrage and ridic ...
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Nov. 14, 2019
Social media posts and memes badly misrepresented the facts surrounding the November 2019 resolu ...
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Nov. 13, 2019
Grisham's past brushes with the law became the focus of social media scrutiny in October and Nov ...
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Nov. 12, 2019
The image of two small tablets inside a Luppo coconut cream bar caused widespread concern — and ...
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Nov. 11, 2019
The president himself touted what he claimed was his unprecedented attendance at "America's Para ...
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Nov. 8, 2019
The Massachusetts senator's presidential campaign got creative in criticizing the spread of poli ...
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Nov. 6, 2019 (Updated: Nov. 7, 2019)
Newsweek highlighted what it claimed was a conspicuous difference between the president's approa ...
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Oct. 31, 2019 (Updated: Nov. 8, 2019)
Viral social media posts claimed members of the Trump family had been barred from running charit ...
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