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This week
1st March 2026 - 4th March 2026
What do we know, and not know, about a devastating school bombing in Iran?
Last month
February 2026
Debunked: A US politician did not say unredacted Epstein files show the existence of Israeli superweapons
Debunked: There is no new EU policy to allow ‘1%’ of India to move to Ireland
FactCheck: Does a viral map show the second-most spoken language in each Irish county?
January
January 2026
Debunked: No, the EU didn’t fine X €45 million for making users ‘think Donald Duck was a real person'
Debunked: Anti-immigration campaigner posts AI image of men in boat during Dublin flooding
Debunked: The World Health Organisation doesn’t have a ‘council on eugenics’
Debunked: A 1989 book did not predict conspiracies involving Covid and 5G
Debunked: No basis to claims Jamie Oliver won a court case by proving McDonald’s food is toxic
Debunked: No evidence that Christine Lagarde plans to outlaw cash transactions of more than €1,000
Debunked: Video of Italian Prime Minister does not show her condemning the EU migration pact
Debunked: False claims spread online that Greenland would bypass Denmark in talks with US
Factfind: Who, if anyone, can be held legally responsible for abuse images on Grok and X?
While the harms of abusive images are clear, the law is far murkier.
Debunked: AI-generated pictures depict male TD in women’s clothes
Debunked: Fake images of Sinn Féin members at a demonstration are AI-generated
Debunked: Conspiracy theory newspaper re-shared as ‘proof’ for false claims about Bill Gates
Debunked: Old and fake footage claimed to show the US seizing Maduro and the raid's aftermath
Last year
2025
‘We’re going to have an Irish Trump,’ claims former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon
Debunked: No, President Catherine Connolly was not kicked off the social media platform X
FactCheck: Did a narrow vote in the Dáil almost open the door to abortion ‘up until birth’?
Debunked: Death is not listed as a side effect of the flu vaccine
Debunked: No, people with deportation orders who don't leave aren't 'still entitled to benefits'
Conspiracies, false identities, and AI feature in misinformation shared after Sydney shooting
Debunked: Series of antisemitic posts make false claims about historical figures
Debunked: Ireland has not given ‘billions of euros’ to Zelenskyy
Debunked: HIV diagnoses in Ireland have not risen by 75 per cent this year
Debunked: No, Enoch Burke has not been sentenced to 'life' in prison
Debunked: Claims ‘15-minute cities’ are a totalitarian scheme resurface after Hong Kong fire
Debunked: False figures used on map showing the population of Muslims in regions of the world
Debunked: The UK's Supreme Court has not banned Christianity from Northern Irish schools
Debunked: Enoch Burke was jailed again, but not for 'refusing to endorse transgender ideology'
Debunked: A lawyer was jailed for embezzlement, not for speaking the truth as an 'Archbishop' said
Debunked: No, Ukrainians do not make up 10% of the population of Co Kerry
Debunked: Increases in road deaths aren’t because cars are shrinking — they’re getting bigger
Debunked: Fake video of children learning Islamic prayer in school shared millions of times
Debunked: There are no longer more than 100,000 Ukrainians in Ireland
Debunked: A real explosion in Kerry was followed by fake footage that claimed to show it happening
FactCheck: Does Ireland produce less energy from wind now than it did 20 years ago?
Dead pigs have long been used to intimidate Muslims - and now it's surfaced in Ireland
After fire at asylum centre in Drogheda, online fringe groups seek to rewrite what happened