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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June 27, 2019 (Updated: June 16, 2020)
A thought-provoking, widely shared blog post made a series of allegations against the "Harry Pot ...
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June 25, 2019
Several spammy posts in June 2019 promoted a streaming service ... but readers shouldn't hand ov ...
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June 25, 2019
Multiple news articles in June 2019 prompted reader inquiries about the plight of Jessica Stalli ...
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June 19, 2019
Remarks made by Ecuador's defense minister prompted concern about the UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
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June 18, 2019
An unreliable website shared a scare story with a xenophobic twist in June 2019.
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June 17, 2019
A viral June 2019 Twitter story had plenty of twists and turns, as well as a happy ending. But w ...
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June 14, 2019
A blog with a penchant for misinformation about life in Canada published another misleading post ...
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June 12, 2019
"What is it to be an American?" the fictional president asked during a visit to the U.K. in the ...
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June 12, 2019
A Princeton political philosopher was one of many observers who shared a controversial photograp ...
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June 10, 2019
The Washington Post prompted inquiries from readers with their stark statistical comparison.
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June 7, 2019
President Donald Trump raised eyebrows with a bold claim during a visit to Ireland in June 2019.
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June 7, 2019
Buckingham Palace has confirmed Elizabeth II did not give a June 2019 interview which was subseq ...
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June 6, 2019 (Updated: June 10, 2019)
A viral video took off on Facebook in June 2019, but its claims about food safety were far from ...
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June 3, 2019
Widely shared memes contained a quotation that is commonly attributed to the Great Emancipator.
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May 30, 2019
A flurry of news reports brought controversy in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's Memori ...
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May 29, 2019
A meme compared the sentences given to John Walker Lindh, a white American known as the "America ...
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May 28, 2019
A junk news website produced yet another scaremongering story intended to provoke well-intention ...
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May 28, 2019
A notorious producer of junk news and hoax articles churned out yet another hoax, this time abou ...
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May 24, 2019
A notorious producer of junk news churned out yet another hoax.
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May 23, 2019
Principled criticism of aspects of one's life in a country is not the same as expressing hatred ...
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