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
June 18, 2018
A prolific producer of fake news publishes yet another false meme about an 'Arnim Zola'.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 15, 2018 (Updated: June 16, 2018)
A conservative group's Facebook meme gets some basic facts right but leaves out important context.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
June 15, 2018
Photographs shared widely on social media offer an incomplete explanation of the kinds of damage ...
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June 14, 2018
A new funding initiative by the restaurant chain caused surprise and skepticism in mid-2018.
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June 12, 2018
A Hong Kong company garnered global headlines with its "Jiftip" product, but it's not clear who' ...
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June 12, 2018
A viral photograph showed massive crowds out on the streets of an English city, but the scene wa ...
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June 11, 2018
Immigration lawyers have already vowed to take legal action against Sessions's ruling, which wou ...
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May 30, 2018
According to one fake news purveyor, the cancelled sitcom was picked up by three different netwo ...
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May 29, 2018
Tommy Robinson was sentenced in May 2018 for violating reporting restrictions and potentially ri ...
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May 29, 2018 (Updated: Sept. 29, 2019)
Survivors of mass shootings and those who have lost loved ones in them condemned the game "Activ ...
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May 28, 2018
Some reports have held that President Trump has "just begun" an immigration-related policy which ...
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May 25, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 4, 2021)
A Facebook meme accurately quoted from a letter written by Columbus himself.
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May 24, 2018
A notorious producer of fake news provokes yet more outrage with another fabricated meme.
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May 23, 2018
CNN got the basic facts about international school shooting frequencies right, albeit in a list ...
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May 22, 2018
Christopher Barnett claims his Facebook account was hacked as part of a bitter and long-running ...
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May 22, 2018
A right-wing Facebook page published a meme that was heavy on Islam-blaming but light on evidence.
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May 21, 2018
A meme summarized Nazi beliefs about Jewish people but drew a less accurate link to President Tr ...
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May 19, 2018
A notorious producer of hoax news stories turns a fabricated quote into a Facebook meme.
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May 16, 2018
The "Girther" conspiracy theory is based on false assumptions about how the human body can vary ...
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May 15, 2018
A pro-Trump Facebook page accurately alludes to the results of an April 2018 survey from YouGov.
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