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
Oct. 12, 2018
A left-wing web site's January 2018 meme was based on data that were accurate at the time, but w ...
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Oct. 11, 2018
Some social media users recycled an old, digitally-edited photograph that misled viewers in Octo ...
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Oct. 10, 2018
A widely-shared meme got the basic facts right about an October 2017 case involving the newest S ...
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Oct. 10, 2018
An old quotation attributed to the 39th president re-emerged on social media in October 2018, pr ...
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Oct. 9, 2018
A half-time performance loosely based on the movie 'John Q' caused widespread controversy in Mis ...
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Oct. 5, 2018
Simple mathematics, rather than a mysterious once-a-millennium event, explains a popular meme.
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Oct. 5, 2018 (Updated: Jan. 7, 2020)
The future of the Violence Against Women Act remains in jeopardy, but President Trump signed a n ...
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Oct. 4, 2018
A mildly embarrassing moment on the president's trip to Minnesota was greeted with amusement and ...
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Oct. 4, 2018
The social network says they're working to fix a glitch that causes one-time donations to appear ...
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Oct. 4, 2018
Kavanaugh hadn't spent much time in courtrooms when President George W. Bush nominated him to th ...
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Oct. 2, 2018
Conspiracy theorists outdid themselves in attempting to create connections between the CIA and B ...
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Sept. 28, 2018
New Jersey's Attorney General gave a general warning about 19 popular apps, including Fortnite, ...
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Sept. 27, 2018
A Facebook page that calls itself "the Alt-right Onion" posted a fake story based on the lyrics ...
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Sept. 27, 2018
News reports captured some of the important details about campaign contributions by Nike workers ...
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Sept. 25, 2018
Conservative groups sponsor an annual event by that name, but the White House had no role in its ...
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Sept. 24, 2018
The Connecticut Democrat admitted making false and misleading claims about his military service ...
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Sept. 24, 2018
A notorious producer of junk news attempted to make hay during Week 3 of the 2018 NFL season.
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Sept. 22, 2018
The incident at a Hialeah drive-thru formed the basis of a viral Facebook video.
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Sept. 19, 2018
A stray comment on an Iranian news web site formed the basis of a bizarre meme involving Sir Dav ...
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Sept. 18, 2018
In August 2018, the U.S. Senate confirmed Tara Sweeney's appointment as Assistant Secretary for ...
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