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. 10, 2018
“Let’s say, for example, that these gay aliens can assume human form. What’s to stop them from i ...
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Aug. 6, 2018
A disreputable web site distorted and misled readers on the subject of a new French law on sexua ...
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Aug. 3, 2018 (Updated: Nov. 27, 2019)
Prominent conservative commentators boosted a false, mathematically impossible rumor about the p ...
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Aug. 2, 2018
A 13-year-old quotation from the former Illinois Senator was reintroduced into public debate in ...
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Aug. 1, 2018
The numbers aren't entirely clear, but the Food Network star certainly coordinated a major relie ...
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Aug. 1, 2018 (Updated: Aug. 2, 2018)
An investigation into U.S. international aid practises in 2015 hit the headlines in July 2018.
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Aug. 1, 2018
A notorious producer of junk news posted a fabricated meme about the popular restaurant chain.
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July 31, 2018
For critics of President Trump, an old quotation about "treason from within" was relevant in 201 ...
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July 27, 2018
Bernie Sanders claimed that the president and his re-election campaign are responsible for incre ...
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July 24, 2018
The former Democratic Congresswomen accused the Department of Homeland Security of "making war o ...
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July 24, 2018
Internet memes falsely used an unrelated image of a Moroccan girl to illustrate the unusual life ...
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July 23, 2018
Republican Bobby Wilson brought up a dark chapter from his past during a public debate about gun ...
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July 19, 2018
Theories about the symbolism behind the monarch's fashion choices are founded on assumptions tha ...
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July 17, 2018
A partisan Facebook page significantly exaggerated the likely consequences of the House's versio ...
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July 16, 2018
Criticism of the U.S. president's actions in the U.K. was largely based on cherry-picked images ...
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July 15, 2018
A hyperpartisan Facebook page gave readers an incomplete picture of mass shootings in America in ...
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July 13, 2018
The mischievous use of pixellation gave some viewers the false impression that a video showed Lo ...
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July 12, 2018
A travel web site got the basic facts right about the gruesome death of David Baloyi in February ...
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July 12, 2018
A news web site got some facts right but gave an incomplete and misleading account of a June 201 ...
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July 11, 2018
A Facebook Live video prompted widespread outrage and an internal investigation into the conduct ...
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