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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Aug. 30, 2017
A rumor exaggerates the (vanishingly small) likelihood that those who rescue animals in danger d ...
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Aug. 29, 2017
Conservative web sites accurately stated that the San Domenico school has removed some statues; ...
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Aug. 28, 2017
A fake article on a comedy web site managed to fool a number of readers into thinking the author ...
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Aug. 28, 2017
Viral posts on social media largely accurately describe a change to Texas state law about hurric ...
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Aug. 25, 2017
Richard Robert Rawling has been charged over his alleged actions in the March 2016 primaries, bu ...
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Aug. 24, 2017
A right-wing web site accurately describes some parts of a gun control law, but also uses exagge ...
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Aug. 24, 2017
The Cleveland Browns running back posted the artist's rendering to Instagram in July 2016; then ...
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Aug. 23, 2017
East Central University in Oklahoma may ultimately have to remove Christian symbols from their n ...
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Aug. 23, 2017
Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis didn't target President Trump's supporters, but directed his co ...
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Aug. 22, 2017
News reports exaggerate and misrepresent the extent and nature of financial problems at the Secr ...
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Aug. 21, 2017
Liz MacKean fought to reveal historical child sexual abuse, but there is no evidence that she di ...
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Aug. 21, 2017
Two conservative web sites grossly misrepresented the content of a lyric essay in The Atlantic m ...
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Aug. 18, 2017
Right-wing web sites accurately describe the basic facts of a real incident which lasted for aro ...
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Aug. 18, 2017
Right-wing Facebook pages created a meme containing a fabricated quote attributed to the Democra ...
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Aug. 16, 2017
News articles accurately describe the settlement and compensation terms of a real lawsuit involv ...
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Aug. 16, 2017
An authentic quote from Lincoln has attracted renewed attention, along with some commentary that ...
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Aug. 15, 2017
News articles accurately describe real signs posted around a hotel in Arosa, Switzerland that we ...
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Aug. 15, 2017
Internet speculation about a Craigslist advertisement does not appear to be based on any concret ...
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Aug. 14, 2017
A conservative web site accurately described a remarkable decline in the debt during the first h ...
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Aug. 14, 2017
A satirical web site publishes the latest in a series of entirely false stories about Malia Obama.
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