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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.

Did a Michigan State Senate Candidate Defend Men Having Sex with Underage Girls?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Has Rep. Joe Kennedy Received $348,000 in Donations from the Pharmaceutical Industry?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Feb. 2, 2018

A meme targeting the Democratic lawmaker gets some, but not all, of the facts right.

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Do Amazon Employees Qualify for Food Stamps?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Feb. 1, 2018

Official statistics suggest that some of the online retail giant's workforce receive food stamps ...

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Did a Democratic Congressman 'Storm Out' of Trump's State of the Union?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Feb. 1, 2018

Conservatives and conspiracy theorists have made much of the fact that Luis Gutiérrez quietly wa ...

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Will a Cooking, Cleaning Sex Robot Be Available by 2019?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Feb. 1, 2018

Nope — a "satirical" web site just thinks misogyny is funny.

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Does MIT Offer Students a 'Pirate Certificate'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 31, 2018

The prestigious university counts among its alumni Nobel laureates, leaders of science and indus ...

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Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 31, 2018

Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in th ...

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Did a California Teacher Call Military Members 'the Lowest of Our Low'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill Bethania Palma

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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Did Ronald Reagan Pave the Way for Fox News?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 26, 2018

A Facebook meme gets some facts right about the demise of the Fairness Doctrine but ignores impo ...

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Do People in Sweden Have to Sign a 'Consent Form' Before Having Sex?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 26, 2018

A right-wing Facebook page used a prank photograph to misrepresent a Swedish government proposal ...

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Did a Mississippi Democrat Propose a Law to Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 25, 2018

The implications of a bill put forward by State Representative Credell Calhoun are unclear.

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Did a Vermont Woman Post a Joke About Trump 'Bringing Back Slavery'?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 25, 2018

Heather Wick faced an online backlash after a racially insensitive Facebook post in 2017, and ag ...

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Was Ivanka Trump Critically Injured After Being Shot by a Sniper?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 25, 2018

A "satirical" web site run by a prolific purveyor of fake news published yet another distasteful ...

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Did Senator Tom Cotton Call for Drug Testing for Social Security Recipients?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 24, 2018

The Arkansas Republican has supported drug screening for welfare programs, but never for Social ...

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Pope Francis Rails Against 'Fake News,' Condemns 'Snake-Tactics' of Its Authors

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 24, 2018

The Holy Father compared those who create and spread misinformation to the "crafty" serpent in t ...

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Did Donald Trump's 2018 Budget Proposal Cut Support for Disabled Veterans?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 23, 2018

The president's plan did call for changes that would have had a significant financial effect on ...

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Does the 'Bar' in 'Bar Exam' Denote a Secret Lawyers' Conspiracy?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 23, 2018

A "sovereign citizen" conspiracy theory about the licensing of lawyers is riddled with bad logic ...

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Did an Irish Woman Legally Marry the Ghost of a Pirate From the 1700s?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 22, 2018

Despite the claims of tabloid newspapers, Amanda Teague's marriage to her "spiritual husband" do ...

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Are Women Using Their Menstrual Blood as Face Masks?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

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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Did the German Government Use a Soap Opera to 'Brainwash' Children to Become Muslim?

Written by: Dan MacGuill

Jan. 17, 2018

Right-wing web sites grossly misrepresented the significance and meaning of one scene from one 2 ...

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