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
Dec. 4, 2018
Gen. Barry McCaffrey also asserted that the president was "under the sway" of his Russian counte ...
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Dec. 4, 2018
The online streaming service caused consternation in December 2018 when they briefly signalled t ...
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Nov. 30, 2018
The "new" News Punch is just as fake as the old Your News Wire. And just as unoriginal.
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Nov. 29, 2018
Conservative web sites grossly misrepresented the facts surrounding the transfer of $238,634 in ...
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Nov. 28, 2018
A widely-shared Facebook meme grossly misrepresented the nature of an infamous Holocaust-era pol ...
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Nov. 27, 2018
Conservative web sites accurately presented the frequency of tear gas use during the final five ...
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Nov. 20, 2018
A meme referred to the tragic circumstances surrounding the death and discovery of Joyce Carol V ...
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Nov. 19, 2018
A widely-shared meme offered a malicious quotation attributed to the Minnesota Democrat.
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Nov. 19, 2018
A viral Facebook meme contained some unflattering statements attributed to the controversial ani ...
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Nov. 19, 2018
Conservative web sites and commentators pounced on a tweet which the Democratic Congressman insi ...
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Nov. 16, 2018
Presidents sometimes express support for U.S. troops on Veterans Day at places other than Arling ...
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Nov. 14, 2018
Various local Goodwills in California were offering assistance to residents forced to flee the C ...
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Nov. 13, 2018
A conservative political web site drew a link between the Democrat's rejection of a legislative ...
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Nov. 13, 2018
If it was carried out, the president's call to finalize the preliminary election results before ...
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Nov. 12, 2018
A viral meme used wildly inaccurate figures as part of a conspiracy theory about electoral fraud.
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Nov. 12, 2018
A viral Facebook post significantly misrepresented what the FBI said about sexual assault and mi ...
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Nov. 9, 2018
A pro-life web site misrepresented the pro-choice Arizona Democrat's voting record on partial-bi ...
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Nov. 7, 2018
A television news crew was inconsiderate in blocking handicapped parking spaces but didn't actua ...
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Nov. 7, 2018
Some news reports got certain important details wrong about a State Department payment to the Se ...
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Nov. 6, 2018
A notorious junk news web site grossly distorted comments made by Starbucks COO Rosalind Brewer.
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