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
May 10, 2018
The exact reasons behind the Mormon Church's decision to cut ties with the Boy Scouts of America ...
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May 9, 2018
H.B. 1436 would allow for gun confiscation, but only under very narrow circumstances and as a me ...
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May 9, 2018
A notorious fake news web site wrenches the Pope's remarks out of context to create yet another ...
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May 9, 2018
Conspiracy-minded web sites perform impressive mental gymnastics in an effort to tie the 44th pr ...
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May 7, 2018
A viral video gets some details right about the case of Ramad Ahshad Chatman, but leaves out one ...
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May 7, 2018
A viral photograph shows a real roadside sign near Huntingtown in Calvert County which warns "li ...
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May 7, 2018
A right-wing, pro-Trump Facebook page uses a photograph of Melania Trump to attack her predecess ...
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May 4, 2018 (Updated: May 8, 2018)
A Facebook meme gets the basic facts right but misses some important context.
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May 3, 2018
Michael Hayden said Greg Abbott's response to the "Jade Helm" conspiracy theory may have encoura ...
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May 3, 2018
A viral meme fabricated supernatural involvement in an already remarkable hurricane survival story.
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May 2, 2018
A notorious fake news web site cynically exploited the death of an English toddler with a false ...
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May 1, 2018
Patrick Little has repeatedly expressed white supremacist views in his campaign, including calli ...
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May 1, 2018
Conservative web sites grossly misrepresented the provisions of an initiative by UT's Counsellin ...
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May 1, 2018
Some gun control advocates misrepresented security measures imposed by the Secret Service, not t ...
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April 30, 2018
Some web sites inaccurately describe the provisions of California's Healthy Youth Act.
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April 30, 2018
A parody Facebook account tricked some readers into believing that the White House Press Secreta ...
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April 30, 2018
Doctored images appear to show the 43rd and 44th U.S. presidents leading a Twitter backlash agai ...
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April 27, 2018
A popular meme repeated confused and inaccurate claims about the purported links between fascism ...
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April 26, 2018
A popular meme outlines the purported benefits of living in Sweden.
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April 26, 2018
It's probably best not to get your legal advice from social media.
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