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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May 23, 2019
A satirical web site attributed made-up remarks to the 2020 presidential hopeful, but the commen ...
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May 22, 2019
A cluster of right-leaning websites jumped into action based on preliminary details about a May ...
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May 21, 2019
The company's CEO Marcus Lemonis told Snopes.com, "We will not be taking the flag down under any ...
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May 20, 2019
Attempts to make political points by bringing up DoD spending on erectile dysfunction drugs don' ...
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May 20, 2019
In May 2019, social media posts targeted the would-be 2020 Democratic presidential nominee for h ...
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May 17, 2019
An inaccurate, partially plagiarized post on an obscure blog caused widespread concern in April ...
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May 17, 2019 (Updated: May 21, 2019)
House Bill 481, signed into law in May 2019, prompted a wave of assertions about its possible ef ...
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May 13, 2019
Reports emerged in spring 2019 that linked a 2-acre plot of land near Tuskegee with a bizarre, s ...
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May 10, 2019
In May 2019, social media users shared evidence of the company's controversial campaign to disco ...
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May 8, 2019
A controversial video prompted concern in April and May 2019.
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May 7, 2019
A January 2018 video of the former U.S. vice president re-emerged in May 2019 after he announced ...
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May 3, 2019
Some of Omar's opponents and critics have highlighted a six-year-old incident at the Hotel Ivy i ...
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May 3, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump's choice for Federal Reserve governor faced scrutiny of his past wri ...
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May 1, 2019
A mysterious flyer was distributed around the Lakewood Heights neighborhood in late April 2019.
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April 29, 2019 (Updated: Sept. 26, 2019)
An April 2019 New York Times feature article revived interest in the Australian government's yea ...
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April 29, 2019
A Christian conservative website and a group of activists in California responded with outrage t ...
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April 24, 2019 (Updated: July 31, 2019)
Social media memes in spring 2019 exaggerated the implications of a law passed by the North Caro ...
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April 22, 2019 (Updated: April 23, 2019)
The Republican state senator attracted nationwide coverage and widespread criticism in April 201 ...
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April 19, 2019
State Rep. Janine Boyd garnered national attention for an amendment she proposed to the state's ...
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April 18, 2019
A Breitbart report re-emerged on social media in the aftermath of the April 2019 fire at Notre D ...
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