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. 6, 2017
The NYPD and the Brooklyn district attorney's office are investigating a string of apparent hate ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 5, 2017
News reports accurately describe a decision made by Tennessee businessman Allan Jones.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 5, 2017
An apparent altercation between concert-goers was blown out of proportion, and the witness who r ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Oct. 5, 2017
The Department of Agriculture agreed to waive the usual "hot food" ban for food stamps and denie ...
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Oct. 4, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 5, 2017)
Text messages presented in a news article appear to suggest Murphy asked Shannon Edwards to have ...
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Oct. 2, 2017
Reports that truck drivers are on strike in Puerto Rico are false -- Teamsters have asked mainla ...
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Oct. 2, 2017
A "satirical" web site published a fake story about the sportswear company, which has in fact ex ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 30, 2017
A viral meme got some facts right about an infamous 1980s lawsuit involving Donald Trump's footb ...
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Sept. 28, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 29, 2017)
A viral photograph shows a man kneeling and recording a video at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ...
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Sept. 27, 2017
A viral Facebook post shows an authentic credit card receipt for a Cheesecake Factory order with ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 27, 2017
A well-known "satirical" web site published yet another entirely fabricated story.
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 27, 2017
A viral string of tweets got some facts right about a failed business venture involving a Trump ...
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Sept. 26, 2017
An online petition accurately describes the basic facts about three installations that were late ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 25, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 26, 2017)
A Facebook post got some facts right about a popular tradition by the University of Iowa's footb ...
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Sept. 25, 2017
News reports correctly describe the facts surrounding scheduled "Obamacare" web site downtime du ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 25, 2017 (Updated: Sept. 28, 2017)
A "satirical" web site published a false claim that certain NFL teams issued refunds to a majori ...
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Sept. 22, 2017
A bizarre false flag conspiracy theory falsely links an actor from NBC's 'The Office' to the Par ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 22, 2017
A 27-year-old comic strip by Peter Kuper received renewed interest on social media in 2017.
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Sept. 21, 2017
A viral Facebook video contains false and unproven claims about the humanitarian organization's ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Sept. 21, 2017
A warning video about the use of the insecticide naled in parts of Texas gets some facts wrong a ...
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