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.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 8, 2022
Social media users pored over videos that appeared to show the Ukrainian president touching a mi ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 4, 2022
Conspiracy theorists and Russian apologists stretched credulity with one viral post in early 2022.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
March 4, 2022
Social media users seized upon what appeared to be a screenshot of an unfortunately-worded tweet ...
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March 3, 2022 (Updated: March 4, 2022)
Americans outraged by Russia's invasion of Ukraine called for a boycott of Lukoil gas stations i ...
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March 2, 2022
Rehashed videos, offensive memes, fear-mongering conspiracy theories — Snopes writers know the p ...
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March 1, 2022
A 2012 video of young Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was repurposed during Russia's invasion o ...
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Feb. 24, 2022
Widely shared social media posts were not sincere tributes but rather part of a distasteful trop ...
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Feb. 23, 2022 (Updated: Feb. 25, 2022)
A Hollywood gossip site is hardly the most reliable source of news about the British Royal Family.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 22, 2022
Former President Trump suggested Clinton and others should face execution for their supposed cri ...
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Feb. 18, 2022
Can you guess which two-legged occupant of the White House owned each one of these critters?
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 18, 2022
Have your say, this Presidents Day.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 17, 2022
A disturbing child sexual abuse case hit the headlines once again in February 2022.
Written by: Dan MacGuill David Mikkelson
Feb. 16, 2022
We compiled some Presidents Day factoids from the Snopes archives.
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Feb. 14, 2022
For once, social media posts actually understated the miraculous and dramatic story of British A ...
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Feb. 9, 2022
A notorious purveyor of junk news and conspiracy theories strikes again.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 8, 2022 (Updated: Feb. 9, 2022)
News reports in February 2022 grossly misrepresented the facts about a federal harm reduction pr ...
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Feb. 7, 2022
The billionaire businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner caused a stir in early 2022 with reports ...
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Feb. 4, 2022
Conspiracy theorists reached new lows in attempting to discredit Young's vocal opposition to vac ...
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Feb. 3, 2022
At the time, horseless carriages in the U.K. could not exceed 4 mph, and had to be accompanied b ...
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Feb. 2, 2022
A look back at some of the most important, egregious, and iconic episodes of COVID politics from ...
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