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.
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March 22, 2018
A video of a fatal explosion at a gas station in Brazil was real, but the tragedy wasn't caused ...
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March 21, 2018
A grotesque hoax involving doctored images of people in bathrooms managed to trick some Internet ...
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March 21, 2018
A group of medical professionals in Quebec opposed a pay deal struck with the provincial governm ...
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March 20, 2018
The megastar's exhortation to her 61 million followers to "throw away" the app likely did make a ...
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March 20, 2018
Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.
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March 19, 2018
A disreputable Facebook page engaged in a time-honored ritual — the phony deathbed conversion of ...
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March 15, 2018
New Prague High School in Minnesota says a pro-gun rights placard was removed from a protest bec ...
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March 14, 2018
After a violent Native American uprising in 1862, President Lincoln signed off on 39 executions ...
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March 13, 2018
A letter documents a Catholic orphanage’s sale of a Native American child to an Illinois couple.
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March 12, 2018
The Hasta Muerte coffee shop told a law enforcement officer that he and his colleagues are not w ...
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March 9, 2018
A searchable database of inspection reports was temporarily removed from the United States Depar ...
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March 9, 2018
A pro-gun rights economist used questionable statistical methods to create a misleading impression.
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March 2, 2018
A website that publishes viral content accurately recounts the terrible story of Katie Flynn's d ...
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Feb. 28, 2018
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are not calling senior citizens and asking for personal in ...
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Feb. 27, 2018
Reports about a 2011 change to Iowa's gun licensing rules in Iowa went viral after a mass school ...
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Feb. 26, 2018
In the not-so-distant past, white carnival goers threw eggs or balls at African Americans in a g ...
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Feb. 26, 2018
The group didn't formally give the U.S. president that label, but it used strong language in acc ...
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Feb. 23, 2018
A Facebook meme gets the basic facts right about the gun lobby's status as a social welfare orga ...
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Feb. 23, 2018 (Updated: Feb. 24, 2018)
U.S. calendars for 2018 on Apple devices initially did not mark Easter, but the holiday has sinc ...
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Feb. 22, 2018
The National Rifle Association's letters to Wisconsin judicial candidates came under scrutiny in ...
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