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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.

Did Bernie Sanders Say an 'Evil Billionaire' Should Donate Funds to Govt., Not Students?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 23, 2019

A satirical web site attributed made-up remarks to the 2020 presidential hopeful, but the commen ...

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Did a 'Mob of Somali Teens' Attack Minneapolis Commuters with Hammers in Racially Motivated Assault?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 22, 2019

A cluster of right-leaning websites jumped into action based on preliminary details about a May ...

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Did Statesville, NC, Try to Stop Camping World from Flying the U.S. Flag?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Does the U.S. Government Subsidize Viagra?

Written by: Dan MacGuill Bethania Palma

May 20, 2019

Attempts to make political points by bringing up DoD spending on erectile dysfunction drugs don' ...

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Did NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Once Support the Sandinista Govt. in Nicaragua?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 20, 2019

In May 2019, social media posts targeted the would-be 2020 Democratic presidential nominee for h ...

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Was Canada Under an E. Coli-Related Boil Water Notice in the Spring of 2019?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 17, 2019

An inaccurate, partially plagiarized post on an obscure blog caused widespread concern in April ...

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Did Georgia Pass a Law Imposing Severe Criminal Penalties for Abortions and Miscarriages?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did the FBI Discover a 'Homegrown Islamic Terror Compound' in Alabama?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did Delta Air Lines Encourage Employees to Buy Video Game Consoles Instead of Joining a Union?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 10, 2019

In May 2019, social media users shared evidence of the company's controversial campaign to disco ...

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Did Children at a Philadelphia Muslim School Sing a Song With Violent Lyrics?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 8, 2019

A controversial video prompted concern in April and May 2019.

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Did U.S. Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Say He Had 'No Empathy' for the Plight of Younger People?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did Minneapolis Police Arrest U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar on Suspicion of Trespassing in 2013?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did Conservative Commentator Stephen Moore Advocate Child Labor Beginning at Age 11?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 3, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump's choice for Federal Reserve governor faced scrutiny of his past wri ...

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Did the City of Atlanta Ask Residents Not to 'Dump Trash on White Supremacist Leaders' Properties'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

May 1, 2019

A mysterious flyer was distributed around the Lakewood Heights neighborhood in late April 2019.

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Did Australia Plan to Kill Millions of Feral Cats Using Poisoned Sausages?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did a California Public School District 'Teach Pedophilia as a Sexual Orientation'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 29, 2019

A Christian conservative website and a group of activists in California responded with outrage t ...

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Did North Carolina Ban Sharia Law and Make It a 'Criminal Offense'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did Washington State Sen. Maureen Walsh Say Nurses 'Play Cards' for a Large Part of Their Working Day?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 22, 2019 (Updated: April 23, 2019)

The Republican state senator attracted nationwide coverage and widespread criticism in April 201 ...

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Did an Ohio State Rep. Propose Exempting African-American Women from Abortion Restrictions?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 19, 2019

State Rep. Janine Boyd garnered national attention for an amendment she proposed to the state's ...

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Did Vandals Attack 12 Churches in France in One Week?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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