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
July 11, 2017
Stan Romanek, a prominent self-proclaimed "alien abductee", says his computer was hacked in a go ...
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July 10, 2017
The United States president has offered to help the terminally ill boy, but there is no evidence ...
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July 7, 2017
A short viral video clip was cut off before showing that Agata Kornhauser-Duda did indeed greet ...
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June 30, 2017
The parents of the boy, who suffers from a rare mitochondrial disease, had waged a high-profile ...
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June 29, 2017 (Updated: July 3, 2017)
An animal rescue organization provided a misleading — and inflammatory — description of a group ...
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June 29, 2017
Behind a sensationalist headline lurked real news of a product recall.
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June 28, 2017
A viral meme describes a promising research project at MIT and Harvard, but so far it has only b ...
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June 27, 2017
The ransomware attack swept infrastructure in Ukraine and then spread across much of the rest of ...
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June 27, 2017
A web site known for bizarre, fake stories has published yet another hoax, this time with a side ...
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June 27, 2017
Claims that Narendra Modi "sidestepped the challenge" with the United States president may be mi ...
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June 26, 2017
The U.S. Senator's wife is accused of fraudulently obtaining a bank loan on behalf of Burlington ...
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June 26, 2017
A cruel hoax fabricated the rescue of a baby from Grenfell Tower in London.
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June 23, 2017
The Stanford law professor's paper is likely to add fuel to the gun control debate.
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June 23, 2017
Partisan web sites misrepresent the source of funding for the Republican senator's care as an in ...
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June 22, 2017
Rebecca Burger died of a heart attack 18 June 2017 after part of a whipped cream canister struck ...
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June 22, 2017
A satirical web site adds to the archive of distasteful fake stories about Bill and Hillary Clin ...
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June 22, 2017 (Updated: Oct. 17, 2017)
A much-reproduced quote from the former Speaker of the House about the passage of the Affordable ...
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June 21, 2017 (Updated: June 23, 2017)
The purported discovery was backed by individuals with a history of making false, pseudoscientif ...
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June 12, 2017
A bizarre, entirely false story originated on a web site notorious for bizarre, entirely false s ...
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June 12, 2017
Human rights monitors are investigating whether the incendiary weapon was deployed in civilian-p ...
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