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
June 12, 2017
An April 2017 recall of Frito-Lay jalapeno-flavored products was reported as new in July and Aug ...
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June 10, 2017
A misleading article twists standard practice for the Queen into an attack on Sadiq Khan and get ...
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June 9, 2017
The organization insists it is not anti-Muslim, but has been labelled an "extremist group."
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June 9, 2017
Several web sites grossly misrepresented the truth about videos showing disturbances at a 2014 p ...
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June 9, 2017
A Breitbart article accurately reports the fining of a Berlin woman under Germany's strict hate ...
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June 7, 2017
How it works, how you can follow the results, and why this is one that's worth putting on the ke ...
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June 7, 2017
A pattern of white supremacist-related killings has provoked discussion about the definition of ...
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June 6, 2017
A parody Twitter account succeeds again in tricking users into taking a fake tweet seriously.
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June 5, 2017
Prices surged in the aftermath of the attack, but this increase was automatic and later suspende ...
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June 5, 2017
A conservative web site twisted the French President's invitation to American researchers to wor ...
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June 5, 2017
A video shows a small group of far-right activists chanting the U.S. President's name, but it wa ...
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June 4, 2017
A tweet by President Trump offered Mayor Sadiq Khan's remarks out of context and did not convey ...
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June 2, 2017
A non-binding vote by student leaders on a largely symbolic resolution has been misrepresented a ...
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June 2, 2017 (Updated: June 12, 2017)
The two agencies most important to predicting and managing weather-related disasters face budget ...
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June 2, 2017
A viral message on social media contained accurate information about how to access food for kids ...
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June 1, 2017
A dubious new web site published a fabricated story that lacked proper sourcing.
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June 1, 2017
Nicholas Deon Thrash, who was living in Marion Indiana, faces 10 counts of molesting a child.
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June 1, 2017
A distasteful prank article spreads misinformation about the former Secretary of State.
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June 1, 2017
A meme cherry-picked one snapshot from a longer meeting where the United States president did us ...
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May 31, 2017
Some commentators have drawn a link between Kushner's contributions and the New Jersey Senator's ...
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