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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March 4, 2019
Facebook users attributed an unusual analogy about "raccoons" to "Steve Harvey" in early 2019. B ...
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March 1, 2019
President Donald Trump's former lawyer came under renewed scrutiny in February 2019.
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Feb. 28, 2019 (Updated: June 15, 2020)
Despite overwhelming evidence of a tragic and senseless accident, some family and friends see a ...
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Feb. 27, 2019
The rumor resurfaced as multiple reputable news outlets reported on Feinstein's death at age 90.
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Feb. 20, 2019
Two viral social media posts described a terrifying, life-threatening ordeal for a woman leaving ...
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Feb. 19, 2019
A viral Facebook post gave readers advice on how to avoid having their credit card details stole ...
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Feb. 18, 2019
Comments made by Republican State Rep. Justin Humphrey in February 2017 re-emerged online two ye ...
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Feb. 18, 2019
A viral Facebook warning urged parents to delete a popular video-sharing app from their children ...
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Feb. 15, 2019
Social media users responded in outrage to the penalties handed down to a Baylor University frat ...
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Feb. 15, 2019
The Washington Post reported that President Trump took his golf game indoors during the federal ...
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Feb. 13, 2019
Joe the Plumber's web site distorted the facts around a set of criminal justice reforms introduc ...
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Feb. 12, 2019
A conservative Christian radio host made hay with throwaway remarks made by the six-time Super B ...
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Feb. 12, 2019
A notorious producer of junk news tried to trick Facebook users into sharing a bogus meme.
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Feb. 11, 2019
What exactly did President Trump say — and what did he mean to say — at the 2019 National Prayer ...
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Feb. 11, 2019
A notorious producer of junk news recycled an old quotation attributed to the veteran Hollywood ...
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Feb. 9, 2019
"Is this real or satire?" was a question posed in response to a wave of cultural controversy in ...
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Feb. 9, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump used his 2019 State of the Union address to criticize the Democratic ...
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Feb. 6, 2019
In early 2019 the Massachusetts Democrat attempted to distance herself from her past pronounceme ...
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Feb. 6, 2019
A viral warning enflamed widespread fears about drugs, violence and cross-border kidnappings.
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Feb. 5, 2019
A widely-shared meme reinforces the "Piano Man's" reputation as a down-to-earth superstar with a ...
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