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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Jan. 10, 2019
President Trump has threatened to cut off aid to California unless authorities changed their for ...
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Jan. 8, 2019
A widely-shared Facebook meme challenged readers to reevaluate their political priorities about ...
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Jan. 3, 2019
The 45th president's first public cabinet meeting of 2019 gave rise to a widely shared Facebook ...
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Jan. 2, 2019
The Jacksonville Democrat's pronouncements as a preacher came under intense scrutiny in 2018.
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Jan. 1, 2019
A widely-shared Facebook meme took aim at the 2020 Democratic presidential contender.
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Dec. 21, 2018
As usual, the simplest explanation is the correct one.
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Dec. 20, 2018
In the midst of a budget standoff between Congressional Democrats and the White House, some Amer ...
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Dec. 20, 2018
Reports in December 2018 referred to a recently discovered "blind creature that buries its head ...
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Dec. 19, 2018
A meme featured an eye-catching quotation attributed to the former vice president.
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Dec. 19, 2018
A December 2018 lawsuit highlighted the case of an elementary school pathologist in Austin.
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Dec. 18, 2018
A Facebook meme highlighted the Puritan colonists' dim view of December 25 celebrations.
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Dec. 17, 2018
A popular tweet listed no fewer than six Trump-related entities supposedly under the legal micro ...
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Dec. 12, 2018
The Academy Award-winning actor is a prominent Hollywood conservative and vocal supporter of the ...
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Dec. 11, 2018
Social media users avidly shared a meme that was well-meaning but light on details.
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Dec. 10, 2018
The 45th president has been adamant and consistent in describing global warming and climate chan ...
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Dec. 7, 2018
This is not exactly what's meant by "breaking bread."
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Dec. 7, 2018
A meme attributed an unusual statement to the wrong New York politician.
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Dec. 6, 2018
We're still not sure why dressing as an alien is necessary for engaging in this activity.
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Dec. 5, 2018
A viral tweet over-simplified a complicated 2014 episode in the context of the 2018 "migrant car ...
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Dec. 4, 2018
A viral tweet misrepresented the nature (and consequences) of a bureaucratic decision made by th ...
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