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
Oct. 27, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 23, 2018)
The claim that Theophilus Van Kannel was motivated by a hatred for chivalry stems from no more t ...
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Oct. 27, 2017
Several disreputable web sites used a fabricated quote as clickbait and plagiarized a two-year-o ...
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Oct. 26, 2017 (Updated: March 2, 2018)
The Clean Label Project claims 80 percent of baby formula contains arsenic.
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Oct. 24, 2017
A disreputable web site grossly misrepresented a memo reportedly sent to NFL Commissioner Roger ...
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Oct. 24, 2017
The mayor of Dickinson, Texas, says a new state law requires that the city ask aid recipients no ...
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Oct. 23, 2017
A conservative web site offers an incomplete, misleading and false summary of Wilson's legislati ...
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Oct. 20, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 21, 2017)
An early morning tweet from Donald Trump contains a basic factual error and a grossly misleading ...
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Oct. 20, 2017
A series of articles fervently blamed immigrants and Muslims for devastating California fires -- ...
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Oct. 19, 2017
An elusive old story about the iconic singer has received a new lease on life on social media.
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Oct. 19, 2017
In September 2016, Jerry Brown did sign a law allowing some -- but not all -- convicted felons t ...
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Oct. 18, 2017
Right-wing web sites used alarmist language and false claims to describe a reading event at a Ca ...
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Oct. 17, 2017
Disreputable web sites provide no evidence to support a half-baked theory about the cause of the ...
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Oct. 17, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 18, 2017)
Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar Called U.S. President Donald Trump's claim "fake news."
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Oct. 16, 2017
A disreputable web site published an illogical and inaccurate conspiracy theory about a valet wo ...
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Oct. 13, 2017
A disreputable web site distorted real concerns over children who have gone missing from the sta ...
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Oct. 13, 2017
A left-leaning web site correctly points out that the President joked around during the playing ...
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Oct. 12, 2017
A popular claim about gun-related fatalities revitalized after the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting ...
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Oct. 12, 2017
A thwarted bombing at Asheville Regional Airport did not receive much attention or coverage in t ...
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Oct. 11, 2017
News reports were based on false claims made by a CBS reporter, who has since resiled from them.
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Oct. 10, 2017
Two disreputable web sites seized on tragic events in upstate New York to further their conspira ...
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