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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May 30, 2017
A meme purporting to be a copy of President Trump's "Hotel & Catering Requirements" was likely a ...
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May 30, 2017
A partisan web site grossly misrepresented the nature of Ivanka Trump's involvement in a World B ...
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May 30, 2017
A satirical article seized on comments by the singer, which were taken out of context.
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May 30, 2017
A real picture with a false caption is being used to spread misinformation about the former Secr ...
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May 29, 2017
Reports grossly misrepresent the Senate Majority Leader's actual statements.
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May 26, 2017
Hyperpartisan web sites published the false claim that Barack Obama had cancelled Peace Officers ...
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May 26, 2017
Controversy surrounds the closure of Kook's Burritos, a pop-up Mexican food truck run by two Ang ...
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May 25, 2017
Theories that terrorist attacks are more likely on the 22nd use faulty data and completely miss ...
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May 25, 2017
Several hyperpartisan web sites falsely attributed an invented quote to the singer.
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May 24, 2017
A "satirical" web site published a fake story of questionable taste.
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May 24, 2017
An internet rumor from a dubious source has been repeated by news outlets in the UK and beyond.
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May 23, 2017
A satirical web site published an entirely fabricated story about the Senate Minority Leader.
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May 23, 2017
A viral video from 2015 shows soldiers seemingly turning away as a protester steps on an America ...
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May 22, 2017 (Updated: May 23, 2017)
An experienced attorney's blog post has caused widespread concern.
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May 19, 2017
A recent viral Facebook post isn't the first to cause concern about the product.
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May 19, 2017
A thinly-sourced article relies on questionable reports to make a claim about the former FBI dir ...
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May 19, 2017
A joke on Twitter has been fleshed out into a full-fledged hoax by two satirical web sites.
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May 18, 2017
A fake, satirical story originally published by a white supremacist web site has been republishe ...
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May 18, 2017 (Updated: May 19, 2017)
An article about a high school teacher's being "seriously injured" after a classroom game with t ...
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May 18, 2017
A woman wrote a harrowing story on Facebook about her daughter's needing surgery after swallowin ...
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