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
Aug. 29, 2019
An unappetizing video clip went viral in August 2019.
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Aug. 27, 2019 (Updated: June 15, 2020)
News websites reported on a pair of potentially significant cases on the court's docket in the f ...
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Aug. 23, 2019
A two-year-old Cameroonian blog post found itself going viral in August 2019, especially among A ...
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Aug. 23, 2019 (Updated: June 15, 2020)
A left-leaning website took the U.S. Department of Justice to task for its intervention in a sex ...
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Aug. 22, 2019
Multiple internet memes and news reports played off comments the 45th president made in a series ...
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Aug. 20, 2019
A remarkably forthright open letter, supposedly written by Ellen Weintraub to the U.S. president ...
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Aug. 20, 2019
Multiple news articles detailed a controversy surrounding the president's August 2019 visit to a ...
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Aug. 16, 2019
Numerous websites exaggerated the role of J.H. Kellogg's odd beliefs about sexual health in the ...
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Aug. 15, 2019
Snopes spoke to the artist behind the painting, who could not corroborate August 2019 news repor ...
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Aug. 15, 2019
Right-leaning U.S. websites grossly misrepresented advice given to the European Court of Justice ...
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Aug. 14, 2019
College-conscious readers asked about a potential money-saving program in August 2019.
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Aug. 13, 2019
An Occupy Democrats meme quoted four presidents accurately, but misled readers by cherry-picking ...
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Aug. 13, 2019 (Updated: Feb. 7, 2020)
A local news report and viral Facebook post omitted crucial information about a plan to "pull pa ...
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Aug. 9, 2019
Attention turned to gun-violence prevention measures in the wake of a spate of mass shootings in ...
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Aug. 8, 2019 (Updated: March 10, 2020)
Right-leaning websites seized upon unconfirmed details supposedly taken from the script of "The ...
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Aug. 7, 2019
News reports in summer 2019 got many of the basic facts right about some planned defense-budget ...
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Aug. 6, 2019 (Updated: Aug. 8, 2019)
After two shooting massacres in August 2019 in the U.S., some commentators focused on the racial ...
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Aug. 5, 2019
An incoherent conspiracy theory failed to take into account the ubiquity of coincidences.
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Aug. 2, 2019
A mother and daughter sounded the alarm over a Pantene product sold at a Walmart store. We check ...
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Aug. 1, 2019
Some news reports saw a measure of irony in President Donald Trump's attacks on the city of Balt ...
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