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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.

Does the Family of Former Attorney General Eric Holder Own an Abortion Clinic?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 12, 2019

A seven-year-old cluster of news reports got a new lease of life on Facebook in April 2019.

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Are Texas Legislators 'Considering the Death Penalty for Women Who Have Abortions'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 12, 2019

Republican-sponsored House Bill 896 garnered nationwide attention in the spring of 2019.

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Did Republican Texas Legislators Advance a Bill That Would 'Allow Doctors to Refuse to Treat LGBT People'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 9, 2019

Texas Senate Bill 17 provoked debate and attracted nationwide attention in the spring of 2019.

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Did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Claim Walls Could Not Be Built in Mountains?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 4, 2019

Republican Iowa Congressman Steve King shared an unsourced meme that attempted to ridicule his c ...

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Did Brunei Announce a Law to Punish 'Gay Sex' with Death By Stoning?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 3, 2019

Celebrities led a social media campaign against criminal reforms scheduled for April 2019 by the ...

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Did Congress Pass the 22nd Amendment in Order to 'Make Sure FDR Did Not Get Re-Elected'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 2, 2019

Critics seized upon remarks made by Democrat U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during an appear ...

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Indiana Authorities Address Social Media Rumors Surrounding the Death of Taemon Blair

Written by: Dan MacGuill

April 1, 2019

The 21-year-old from Huntersville, North Carolina, was found hanged in his own truck in Fort Way ...

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Did the Trump Administration House Undocumented Immigrants Under a Bridge in El Paso?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 29, 2019

Alarming photographs emerged in March 2019, prompting renewed scrutiny of U. S. President Donald ...

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Were 'Child Sex Dolls' Briefly Offered via Amazon?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 28, 2019

The online retail giant came under scrutiny in March 2019 when some disturbing products were dis ...

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Did U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Announce Plans to Cut $18 Million in Funding for the Special Olympics?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 27, 2019

The controversial federal official came under renewed scrutiny in March 2019 for her department' ...

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Did Germany Request the Removal of U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 26, 2019

The controversial American ambassador in Berlin came under renewed criticism in March 2019.

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Did New Zealand Take Fox News or Sky News Off the Air in Response to Mosque Shooting Coverage?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 25, 2019

A television network prompted criticism for their decision to show edited footage recorded from ...

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Did an Abortion Clinic Employee Tell a Patient to 'Flush' a Baby That Survived Abortion?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 22, 2019

A six-year-old undercover abortion facility video re-emerged online in February 2019.

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Did 'Muslim Militants' Kill 120 Christians in Nigeria in February/March 2019?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 19, 2019

News reports in the aftermath of the Christchurch, New Zealand, massacre presented a woefully in ...

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Will U.S. Citizens Need a New Visa to Visit Europe Starting in 2021?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 15, 2019

What exactly is the European Union planning? And what, if anything, did they announce in March 2019?

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Did Justin Schneider Avoid Jail Time Despite Strangling and Assaulting a Female Hitchhiker?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 14, 2019

A Facebook meme fueled outrage about the September 2018 punishment given to the Anchorage, Alask ...

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Did U.S. House Democrats Pass a Bill to Allow Immigrants to Vote?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 12, 2019

A major piece of voting-related legislation became the subject of confused, misleading scrutiny ...

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Did the Girls Scouts Give Their 'Highest Award' to a Girl for Her Pro-Choice Activism?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 11, 2019 (Updated: March 21, 2019)

Right-leaning and pro-life websites extrapolated loosely from a single November 2018 interview t ...

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Conservative Ethics Group Files Campaign Spending Complaint Against Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Her Chief of Staff

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 7, 2019 (Updated: March 8, 2019)

Lawyers for Ocasio-Cortez say she and other Democrat activists "fully complied with the law and ...

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Did Oprah Winfrey Promote the 'Shout Your Abortion' Campaign?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

March 5, 2019

Conservative and pro-life observers criticized the media mogul in 2018 and 2019, but what did Op ...

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