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
Feb. 21, 2018
A very small minority of Twitter users expressed a critical view of Andrew Pollack, but none app ...
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Feb. 21, 2018
A viral cartoon accurately presented several quotations by the then-presidential candidate, deli ...
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Feb. 19, 2018
A parody account tricked Twitter users with a darkly comic video about a fictional mix-up.
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Feb. 19, 2018
Despite the clickbait caption, the video comes from East Texas, not Kensington Palace.
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Feb. 16, 2018
A prank Facebook post, and old reports about a drug overdose, fueled unfounded rumors about the ...
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Feb. 15, 2018
A meme intended to undermine President Trump's call for a military parade quotes general-turned- ...
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Feb. 15, 2018
After a mass shooting at a Florida school, comedy writer Bess Kalb made a powerful point about c ...
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Feb. 15, 2018
Despite conspiracy theorist speculation, no evidence supports a link between Nikolas Cruz and Is ...
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Feb. 15, 2018
Junk news websites gave a blatantly manufactured account of a statement by Archbishop Denis Hart.
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Feb. 14, 2018
A newspaper editorial gets some facts right, and some wrong, in weighing up the consequences of ...
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Feb. 13, 2018
The story was essentially true, but it picked up some embellishment along the way.
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Feb. 12, 2018
Conspiracy theorists falsely linked a deadly Moscow plane crash to Uranium One, a debunked Hilla ...
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Feb. 11, 2018
Contrary to a fabricated tweet, the SpaceX CEO responded graciously to Trump's congratulations o ...
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Feb. 9, 2018
The nature of a video posted to Chinese social media is unclear, but it may have been staged for ...
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Feb. 9, 2018
Right-wing web sites republished a fabricated story posted by a notorious purveyor of fake news.
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Feb. 8, 2018
A Facebook meme purporting to prove that the Dow suffers under Republican presidencies ignores k ...
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Feb. 7, 2018
A spoof video about the notoriously anti-pot Attorney General was produced by a comedy group and ...
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Feb. 6, 2018
Students at Pennridge High School in Philadelphia were asked to solve algebra formulas using vig ...
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Feb. 6, 2018
Viral Facebook posts have rehashed an old recall, causing hundreds of thousands of people unnece ...
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Feb. 5, 2018
For once, a notorious purveyor of fake news gets some details right, but gets the overall story ...
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