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
Sept. 18, 2018
The beverage giant did not confirm or refute news reports that they were in talks with a Canadia ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 17, 2018
Right-wing websites concocted a cynical (and grossly inaccurate) conspiracy theory about a woman ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 17, 2018
A photograph posted by Safari Club International went viral after being shared by outraged anima ...
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Sept. 14, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 15, 2018)
The police union's president called Colin Kaepernick a "shallow dilettante" who disrespected the ...
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Sept. 14, 2018
A report that a Facebook event encouraging people to "shoot guns at Hurricane Florence" had caus ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 14, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 4, 2019)
An NRA television segment hosted by Dana Loesch caused controversy in September 2018.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 13, 2018
A disreputable web site chose to over-simplify and sensationalize a real homily delivered by the ...
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Sept. 13, 2018
Barbara Res, who oversaw construction of the Trump Tower and is now a vocal critic of the presid ...
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Sept. 12, 2018
A bogus quotation added to the widely-held, and possibly mistaken, belief that the 45th presiden ...
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Sept. 11, 2018
A meme used mostly accurate stats to draw a somewhat questionable link between the duration of a ...
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Sept. 11, 2018
An ongoing controversy over Nike's endorsement deal with Colin Kaepernick expanded to include an ...
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Sept. 10, 2018
Conservative web sites and the NRA gave largely accurate accounts of a September 2018 announceme ...
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Sept. 10, 2018
A widely-shared meme fabricated a statement by the singer and actor, who is a fervent opponent o ...
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Sept. 7, 2018
A mysterious photograph of a home-made sign went viral after Nike's controversial endorsement de ...
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Sept. 7, 2018
Critics of Colin Kaepernick's endorsement deal with Nike shared viral claims about the pay and c ...
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Sept. 7, 2018
Users of the controversial online forum 4Chan produced racially-charged and potentially dangerou ...
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Sept. 6, 2018
Taya Kyle wrote on Facebook that the ad campaign's message of "sacrificing everything" was "insu ...
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Sept. 5, 2018
A false viral Facebook rumor was fabricated using an online "fake news generator."
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Sept. 4, 2018
Viral social media posts exaggerated the impact of the actor's much-lauded efforts to end child ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 1, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 4, 2018)
A widely-shared Facebook meme offered allegations about a rising Democratic politician in Texas.
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