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
Dec. 6, 2017
Changing your Twitter account's country to Germany does cause some far-right profiles to be with ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 5, 2017 (Updated: Dec. 6, 2017)
The retailer removed the shirt after receiving a complaint from the Radio Television Digital New ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Dec. 4, 2017
An "entertainment" web site publishes an unpleasant and fabricated article about the gruesome de ...
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Dec. 3, 2017
A disreputable web site capitalized on an old conspiracy theory about the death of the reggae ic ...
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Nov. 29, 2017
As of November 2017, the tax reform bill would make changes to some employee benefits, but not e ...
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Nov. 28, 2017
An emotive Facebook post about the slave trade in Libya used photographs that were either unrela ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 27, 2017
A fabricated health scare that originated in Africa got a new lease on life in November 2017.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 22, 2017
A dramatic account of the great genius's dying moments has been disputed by historians for centu ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 20, 2017 (Updated: Dec. 5, 2017)
The House of Representatives version would, the Senate version would not.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 15, 2017
"This is what 1 illegal refugee gets with the federal assistance program: $3874 per month."
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2017
A satirical web site fooled some readers with a fabrication based on a recent international news ...
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Nov. 8, 2017
Web sites misrepresented an analysis of child care costs presented by President Donald Trump's d ...
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Nov. 7, 2017
A "satirical" web site published an unpleasant and entirely fabricated story about a fictional m ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 6, 2017
False reports revive a long-running hoax about the comedian Sam Hyde.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 3, 2017
A "satirical" web site published a fabricated story that plays on an old, debunked allegation ag ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 3, 2017
A disreputable web site added to its archive of distasteful and entirely fabricated stories with ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 2, 2017
A manager in the DNC's technology department appears to have asked colleagues not to invite stra ...
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Nov. 2, 2017
The pizza chain will be removing the NFL logo and the label of "official sponsor" from their tel ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 1, 2017 (Updated: Nov. 2, 2017)
Mexico is in trade talks with Argentina, but no deal has been finalized; the cost to American fa ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Nov. 1, 2017
Police say University of Hartford freshman Briana Rae Brochu admitted posting about her unpleasa ...
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