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
Oct. 2, 2019
Warren's stance on trans healthcare access is the subject of outrage among some right-leaning ob ...
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Sept. 30, 2019
Pro-life commentators highlighted the 2006 Florida case of Sycloria Williams in September 2019.
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Sept. 27, 2019
Supporters of U. S. President Donald Trump gleefully shared a social media post that suggested i ...
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Sept. 25, 2019
For nearly a century, people have made the mistake of claiming that a quotation about Lincoln wa ...
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Sept. 24, 2019
The teenage climate activist's high-profile speeches in Congress and the United Nations prompted ...
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Sept. 24, 2019
Social media posts used some out-of-date images from different locations to challenge the presid ...
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Sept. 23, 2019
A misleading summary of a legal argument made by the president's lawyers was converted into a di ...
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Sept. 19, 2019
Social media users in the U.S., U.K., and elsewhere shared a years-old scam with origins in a re ...
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Sept. 18, 2019
A widely shared meme compared the crimes and punishments of Michael Alonzo Thompson and Joseph R ...
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Sept. 18, 2019
News websites seized upon remarks made by Magnus Söderlund in September 2019, but climate skepti ...
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Sept. 13, 2019
An intriguing rumor about cultural theft and fried chicken lacks concrete evidence but alludes t ...
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Sept. 11, 2019
Pro-life websites reported — with a degree of accuracy — on the difficult case of Sean Tagert.
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Sept. 10, 2019
A widely-shared tweet misrepresented and over-simplified the Global Peace Index, but it did allu ...
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Sept. 9, 2019
A viral Facebook post proved misleading and confusing rather than informative.
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Sept. 6, 2019 (Updated: Sept. 11, 2019)
The U.S. vice president was met with protests on visits to two European countries in September 2 ...
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Sept. 5, 2019
Right-leaning websites cited "health concerns" over the incident, but might it have an innocuous ...
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Sept. 4, 2019
Many social media users attributed to Tim Allen a set of "interesting points to think about prio ...
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Sept. 3, 2019
A widely shared Facebook post claimed to show the effects of the storm's assault on the Bahamas ...
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Sept. 3, 2019
A routine review of content labeled satire.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Aug. 30, 2019
Critics of the Minnesota Democrat shared an outrageous, inflammatory image online in August 2019.
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