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
Nov. 6, 2018
Is there truly anything that has never been done before in U.S. politics?
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Nov. 5, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 7, 2018)
Some Christians expressed concern that a billboard near St. Louis seemingly equated the 45th pre ...
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Nov. 2, 2018
A controversial right-wing activist published yet another "sting" video which left out significa ...
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Nov. 1, 2018
The songwriter and producer criticized the president for playing the hit song after a mass shoot ...
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Oct. 31, 2018
Conspiracy theorists got the details badly wrong in an attempt to link Sayoc with one of Preside ...
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Oct. 30, 2018
Video and photographic evidence establishes beyond doubt that Sayoc attended at least two Trump ...
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Oct. 30, 2018
A meme got the basic facts right about President Trump's visit to Indianapolis in October 2018.
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Oct. 29, 2018
Eager conspiracy theorists wrenched a photograph of two former soccer teammates out of context, ...
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Oct. 26, 2018
The Secret Service appears to have a policy of screening packages intended for its protectees, b ...
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Oct. 25, 2018
A viral meme confused the legalities of entering the United States with the legalities of applyi ...
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Oct. 24, 2018
Viral memes leave out significant nuance in the transportation companies' efforts to boost democ ...
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Oct. 24, 2018
The Democrat's participation in a 1992 protest re-emerged during the hotly-contested Georgia gov ...
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Oct. 23, 2018
A years-old meme exaggerates the consequences of a controversial voter ID law.
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Oct. 19, 2018
Two criminal cases that were widely disparate in the sentencing were also widely disparate in ma ...
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Oct. 19, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 22, 2018)
Activists have accused Jefferson County officials of racially-motivated voter suppression, but o ...
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Oct. 17, 2018
Left-wing Facebook pages weighed into Georgia's gubernatorial race with widely shared memes abou ...
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Oct. 16, 2018
A viral tweet, offered in response to remarks made by the Republican candidate in a Texas senato ...
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Oct. 15, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 28, 2020)
Back in 2018, critics of a series of voter ID restrictions provided ample evidence that the laws ...
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Oct. 15, 2018
An extraordinary photograph from an April 2018 rally re-emerged on social media several months l ...
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Oct. 12, 2018 (Updated: March 5, 2025)
We found a few reasons to be skeptical of this tweet.
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