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
Aug. 31, 2018
A conservative youth organization's claims about Ripon College's response to a controversial pos ...
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Aug. 29, 2018
Viral social media posts rehashed a three-year-old announcement about the former president, who ...
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Aug. 29, 2018
A prosecutor has requested the death penalty for Shia activist Israa al-Ghomgham, but she has no ...
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Aug. 28, 2018
Purported screenshots of a Facebook rant by an unhappy ex-bride prompted a global wave of curios ...
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Aug. 27, 2018
A notorious producer of junk news capitalized on the death of the Arizona senator with a crude a ...
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Aug. 27, 2018
Photographs suggest the 45th president colored one of the flag's stripes blue, though the eviden ...
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Aug. 27, 2018
News reports in the U.S. featured headlines that sensationalized and misled readers about a sing ...
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Aug. 24, 2018
A hyperpartisan Facebook page spread a fake and inflammatory meme after the death of Iowa colleg ...
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Aug. 23, 2018
William McRaven wrote "I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as ...
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Aug. 23, 2018
Scattered social media posts cited no sources for claims about the president's former adviser th ...
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Aug. 22, 2018
Liberals and Fox News have ruined Festivus for everyone!
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Aug. 22, 2018
A viral, scare-mongering Facebook post fabricated a series of fatal spider bites and used photog ...
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Aug. 21, 2018 (Updated: April 5, 2023)
A viral Facebook post offered an accurate account of the conviction and execution of George Stin ...
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Aug. 20, 2018
A viral meme, based on a piece of investigative journalism, left out some important context in t ...
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Aug. 17, 2018
Several viral memes made unfounded assumptions based on the complicated inner workings of the De ...
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Aug. 16, 2018
A widely-shared article potentially confused some readers about the motives of a couple murdered ...
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Aug. 16, 2018
Right-wing web sites published misleading allegations of voter fraud in Ohio, based on very obvi ...
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Aug. 14, 2018
President Donald Trump's renewed criticism of NFL protests prompted the re-emergence on social m ...
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Aug. 13, 2018
A notorious producer of junk news posted a fake meme about veterans with a reference to a video ...
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Aug. 10, 2018
A group of right-wing street artists called "The Faction" posted a video claiming responsibility ...
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