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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Feb. 5, 2018 (Updated: Oct. 14, 2018)
A Michigan state senate candidate said his Facebook account was hacked and a series of troublin ...
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Feb. 2, 2018
A meme targeting the Democratic lawmaker gets some, but not all, of the facts right.
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Feb. 1, 2018
Official statistics suggest that some of the online retail giant's workforce receive food stamps ...
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Feb. 1, 2018
Conservatives and conspiracy theorists have made much of the fact that Luis Gutiérrez quietly wa ...
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Feb. 1, 2018
Nope — a "satirical" web site just thinks misogyny is funny.
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Jan. 31, 2018
The prestigious university counts among its alumni Nobel laureates, leaders of science and indus ...
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Jan. 31, 2018
Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in th ...
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Jan. 30, 2018 (Updated: March 22, 2018)
Gregory Salcido, who is also a City Council member in Pico Rivera, was caught on video making a ...
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Jan. 26, 2018
A Facebook meme gets some facts right about the demise of the Fairness Doctrine but ignores impo ...
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Jan. 26, 2018
A right-wing Facebook page used a prank photograph to misrepresent a Swedish government proposal ...
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Jan. 25, 2018
The implications of a bill put forward by State Representative Credell Calhoun are unclear.
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Jan. 25, 2018
Heather Wick faced an online backlash after a racially insensitive Facebook post in 2017, and ag ...
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Jan. 25, 2018
A "satirical" web site run by a prolific purveyor of fake news published yet another distasteful ...
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Jan. 24, 2018
The Arkansas Republican has supported drug screening for welfare programs, but never for Social ...
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Jan. 24, 2018
The Holy Father compared those who create and spread misinformation to the "crafty" serpent in t ...
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Jan. 23, 2018
The president's plan did call for changes that would have had a significant financial effect on ...
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Jan. 23, 2018
A "sovereign citizen" conspiracy theory about the licensing of lawyers is riddled with bad logic ...
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Jan. 22, 2018
Despite the claims of tabloid newspapers, Amanda Teague's marriage to her "spiritual husband" do ...
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Jan. 19, 2018
A viral Facebook post is no more than a hoax that plays off the blood-like appearance of a popul ...
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Jan. 17, 2018
Right-wing web sites grossly misrepresented the significance and meaning of one scene from one 2 ...
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