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
Sept. 13, 2021
Republican Congress members and right-leaning websites failed to mention a significant piece of ...
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Sept. 9, 2021
Within hours of the attacks, misinformation emerged online. It would be the start of a two-decad ...
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Sept. 8, 2021
Texas Senate Bill 8 allows private citizens to sue anyone obtaining an abortion, or assisting so ...
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Sept. 8, 2021
A well-meaning and wildly popular Facebook warning got some basic facts wrong about digital imag ...
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Sept. 7, 2021 (Updated: March 7, 2025)
The swimsuit caused a stir when it first emerged in 1946 and was banned from beaches in Italy du ...
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Sept. 3, 2021
Animal rights groups have long lobbied for a change to legislation across the U.K. to acknowledg ...
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Sept. 3, 2021
In September 2021, social media users enthusiastically shared a picture of a restaurant sign tha ...
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Sept. 2, 2021
Messages of love and support for LGBT+ BYU students appeared on or near campus in August 2021 in ...
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Sept. 1, 2021
A rise in COVID-19 infections in Australia in 2021 brought a new conundrum: how to push vaccinat ...
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Sept. 1, 2021 (Updated: Sept. 2, 2021)
Benjamin Eugene Dagley was on probation in August 2021 for a previous conviction for felony assa ...
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Aug. 31, 2021
The fake photo was shared widely online in August 2021, and was even posted by a Republican cong ...
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Aug. 27, 2021
"If there were complete public co-operation, a combined offensive of the whole community would s ...
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Aug. 25, 2021
Federal officials said two outbreaks of the bacterial infection had sickened at least 36 people ...
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Aug. 24, 2021
The 16th century Reformation leader also condemned those who "distain the use of medicines" and ...
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Aug. 20, 2021
Vaccine-skeptical outlets took a voluntary vaccination drive in New South Wales and distorted it ...
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Aug. 18, 2021
In August 2021, news outlets and commentators reacted with outrage to Gov. Kate Brown's signing ...
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Aug. 17, 2021
The heroic exploits of two Latvian firefighters gained prominence online in August 2021.
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Aug. 17, 2021 (Updated: Aug. 27, 2021)
In August 2021, a viral photo showed a woman in medical scrubs who opposed vaccine mandates, cla ...
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Aug. 16, 2021
The Biden administration faced widespread criticism for the manner of its withdrawal from Afghan ...
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Aug. 13, 2021
RealRawNews.com is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not a reliable source of information on much of anyt ...
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