Dan Mac Guill

Claim selection supervisor @LeadStoriesCom. Fact-checker and journalist. Irish. Formerly @snopes @TJ_FactCheck @thejournal_ie. Views my own.

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods” - Albert Einstein

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@debunker ❤️

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@ExploitingNiche Thanks so much Sarah! Looking forward to working together. Team seems great so far.

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An update: I'm leaving @snopes, after more than five years as a writer and fact-checker there, and I'm taking up a new position at @LeadStoriesCom...

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@dpfunke @snopes @LeadStoriesCom Thanks Dan!

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I'll be starting at @LeadStoriesCom next week, and I'm hugely excited to get to know the team there and get stuck into my new role. Watch this space!

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I respect and care for my fellow Snopes writers so much, and I'm looking forward to seeing everything my brilliant friends achieve and produce in the future...

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Four Jan. 6 hearings down — another one today. 📅

The House committee seems to be working towards a specific aim — recommending a criminal prosecution of Trump. But it will be the DOJ that decides whether to bring him to trial. (Thread 👇)
https://t.co/oGun51s3ZG

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Amerie Jo Garza’s obituary, which clearly explained that she had both a biological father and stepfather, was freely available online for several days before conspiracy theorists like Charlie Kirk made their "crisis actor" claims. Absolutely unforgivable. https://t.co/J2c8SW55Mt

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Left-wing PAC MeidasTouch made a splash this week with a self-described "megaviral supercut" they said showed conservative justices lying about Roe v Wade in their confirmation hearings.
Here's a detailed explanation of why that video was total nonsense: https://t.co/5XI0gT0PTX

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UPDATE: After a wave of grossly misleading news coverage, the Biden administration stipulates — in a new statement — that federal funding will not be used to include pipes in safe smoking kits, as part of a substance abuse harm reduction program. https://t.co/HY4Pixjquk

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This little debacle mixes "Racial equity" and "crack pipes" in a way that was always bound to get a lot of people hot under the collar.
But the reality was very different. A detailed breakdown here via @snopes: https://t.co/ut9wl0uDEe

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@stevanzetti Thank you. Such an insidious story.

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Yes, Mitch McConnell really did say "African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans."
We checked the full video: There was no self-correction or mitigating context.
And no comment from his staff despite our request
@snopes https://t.co/cZkDjFiY5M

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Plus @byjlee's eye-opening rundown of the online disinfo cyclone that surrounded Biden during his first year in office. Get signed up!

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Yes, people did sometimes make "Gaslight" references back in the 1950s, and even in the 1940s.
But as far as we can tell, they didn't say things like "Don't gaslight me," as Nicole Kidman's Lucille Ball does in "Being the Ricardos."
https://t.co/zN74abQNc6

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"Among U.S. adults aged between 18 and 45 years old — broadly considered the 'prime of life' — no single factor now kills more prolifically than a Fentanyl overdose."
Just terrifying: https://t.co/No4NBhkP9P

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The distance between “Fauci says vaccines are making people sicker” and what he *actually* said is considerable.
Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of this particularly insidious piece of propaganda: https://t.co/W5jTOKdzp1

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Contrary to the claims of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jacob Wohl and other luminaries, the far-right, white nationalist Patriot Front most assuredly exists, and their rally in Washington D.C. last weekend was very real: https://t.co/AmlC10DNKf