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.
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Oct. 30, 2019
The Rev. Robert Morey sparked controversy in October 2019 when he said he had denied the euchari ...
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Oct. 29, 2019
A pro-life website distorted the pop singer's words, but did not misrepresent the core meaning o ...
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Oct. 28, 2019
Supporters of Donald Trump attacked his predecessor's counterterrorism record after the death of ...
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Oct. 24, 2019
An old case study reemerged on social media in October 2019.
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Oct. 24, 2019
The president raised eyebrows by suggesting his administration was constructing a border fence i ...
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Oct. 23, 2019
What message does Donald Trump send when he touches his face with his middle finger?
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Oct. 21, 2019
Tabloid newspapers and right-leaning websites distorted a decision to make Always packaging tran ...
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Oct. 21, 2019
The phrase “dating back thousands of years” caused many commentators to misunderstand President ...
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Oct. 18, 2019
Critics of the Democratic presidential candidate, and supporters of President Trump's immigratio ...
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Oct. 17, 2019
Critics of the president seized on two supposed gaffes in October 2019. But what did Trump actua ...
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Oct. 16, 2019
Multiple websites saw an irony surrounding the death of Sean Buchanan in Colorado in August 2019.
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Oct. 15, 2019 (Updated: Oct. 17, 2019)
Viral tweets and Facebook posts drew a direct link between buying chicken sandwiches and killing ...
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Oct. 11, 2019
Conspiracy theorists outdid themselves in October 2019 in response to the Ukraine scandal that t ...
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Oct. 9, 2019
Days before Canada's 2019 federal election, rumors emerged about the future prime minister's 200 ...
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Oct. 8, 2019
Some social media users reacted with outrage to the publication of "If You Give a Pig the White ...
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Oct. 7, 2019
The 10-year sentence received by Amber Guyger in 2019 prompted online debate about mandatory min ...
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Oct. 7, 2019
Various websites accurately reported the basic facts surrounding the conviction of Albert Alfons ...
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Oct. 4, 2019
News reports spelled out key facts about the "Autism CARES" Act of 2019.
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Oct. 3, 2019
Right-leaning websites and Republican politicians misrepresented the facts around a September 20 ...
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Oct. 2, 2019
A right-leaning website grossly exaggerated a design choice made to accommodate gender-neutral b ...
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