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
July 9, 2018
An obscure satirical web site managed to trick many readers with a fabricated story in the summe ...
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July 6, 2018
A phrase contained in a excerpt from one of America's founding documents triggered the social ne ...
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July 4, 2018
Experts have authenticated video footage showing the aftermath of a deadly snake attack in June ...
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July 3, 2018
A meme containing fake quotes from a satirical article managed to take in some followers of cons ...
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July 2, 2018
A hyperpartisan Facebook page shared an edited image from a real interview by the California con ...
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July 1, 2018
Disturbing video footage of the incident went viral in June 2018.
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June 29, 2018
A satirical web site left some readers unsure about a fake article that followed a real controve ...
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June 29, 2018
A right-wing Facebook page published a grossly misleading meme that compared the immigration pol ...
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June 28, 2018
A June 2018 news report accurately described the controversial reality of children facing deport ...
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June 28, 2018
Mike Huckabee claimed in interviews that the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, organi ...
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June 26, 2018
A notorious fake news web site got the basic facts right about the crimes of Monsignor Carlo Alb ...
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June 26, 2018 (Updated: July 11, 2018)
Bethany Christian Services, which has links to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, ha ...
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June 26, 2018
Hyperpartisan web sites used shoddy image editing to spread inflammatory disinformation.
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June 26, 2018
A conspiracy theorist web site once again published groundless, scaremongering claims about the ...
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June 25, 2018
Reports and viral memes made several claims about Bethany Christian Services and its purported l ...
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June 21, 2018
Lori McAllen has faced a backlash after screenshots emerged of her calling for immigrants to be ...
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June 21, 2018
A disreputable web site grossly misrepresented the finding of a May 2018 study about the geograp ...
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June 20, 2018
The actor apologized for saying Donald Trump's 12-year-old son should be put in "a cage with ped ...
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June 20, 2018
Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tole ...
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June 18, 2018
The Disney-Pixar animated sequel has prompted safety concerns among some viewers.
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