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May

May 2026

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Debunked: The WHO has not said hantavirus is 'spreading very fast across the world'

14 May

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Misinformation is leading to abuse and harassment of staff and volunteers in NGOs

12 May

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'Covid 2.0': Pandemic-era conspiracies return after the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship

Did the Covid vaccine cause hantavirus? No. But that hasn’t stopped people saying so.

Shane Raymond

8 May

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Debunked: Ivermectin is not a proven cure for cancer, despite claims by famous figures in the US

7 May

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Debunked: No, nine out of ten Ukrainians in Ireland are not unemployed

5 May

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April

April 2026

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Debunked: Video of abandoned 'Irish' woman in London contains no evidence she is Irish

29 Apr

324

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A bizarre 'time travel' theory is among the conspiracies spreading about the DC shooter

27 Apr

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FactFind: Was Leo Varadkar right about urban areas ‘paying the bills’ in Ireland?

Varadkar’s comments on rural Ireland caused a stir – but was he right?

Shane Raymond

23 Apr

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Debunked: Fringe commentator from US spreads false rumour of stabbing at Connolly Station

21 Apr

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FactFind: Are Ireland’s fuel relief packages the largest per capita in the EU?

18 Apr

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Debunked: The PSNI was not involved with breaking up fuel protests in Cork, Galway or Dublin

14 Apr

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Debunked: Micheál Martin was not attending his daughter’s wedding while protesters faced off with Gardaí

14 Apr

36.0k

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Old footage and incorrect hot takes fuelling misinformation around protests

10 Apr

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'They’re going to shut everything': Why anonymous voice notes spread during big, uncertain events

9 Apr

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Debunked: Posts objecting to a proposed ‘Mega Mosque’ in Letterkenny mislead about actual plans

9 Apr

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FactCheck: What does a price map tell us about energy costs in Ireland compared to Europe?

3 Apr

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Debunked: German chancellor did not say ‘send them all back’ about Syrians living in Germany

2 Apr

3.9k

March

March 2026

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Debunked: Tony Holohan says health claims falsely attributed to him could cause ‘genuine harm’

30 Mar

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Debunked: Photo of woman buried in the ground does not show her about to be stoned to death in Iran

26 Mar

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Debunked: Keir Starmer did not suggest the UK should go into lockdown over meningitis cases

26 Mar

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Debunked: A Kneecap gig in Havana did not cause an energy blackout and deaths in Cuba

24 Mar

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FactCheck: Anti-abortion campaigners say Holly Cairns' comments in the Dáil misled. Who is right?

22 Mar

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Debunked: Fake Keir Starmer post threatens to kick US from military bases

20 Mar

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Debunked: A graph about bisexual women shared with false claims it is about transgender kids

10 Mar

5.8k

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Debunked: Video of US military coffins taken off plane is from 2011, not the ongoing war with Iran

6 Mar

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Debunked: Fake footage used to push agendas as the US and Israel go to war with Iran

5 Mar

19.4k

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What do we know, and not know, about a devastating school bombing in Iran?

2 Mar

19.9k

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2026

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Debunked: A US politician did not say unredacted Epstein files show the existence of Israeli superweapons

20 Feb

9.6k

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Debunked: There is no new EU policy to allow ‘1%’ of India to move to Ireland

19 Feb

7.1k

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FactCheck: Does a viral map show the second-most spoken language in each Irish county?

18 Feb

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Debunked: No, the EU didn’t fine X €45 million for making users ‘think Donald Duck was a real person'

30 Jan

3.4k

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Debunked: Anti-immigration campaigner posts AI image of men in boat during Dublin flooding

29 Jan

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Debunked: The World Health Organisation doesn’t have a ‘council on eugenics’

27 Jan

604

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Debunked: A 1989 book did not predict conspiracies involving Covid and 5G

27 Jan

418

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Debunked: No basis to claims Jamie Oliver won a court case by proving McDonald’s food is toxic

26 Jan

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Debunked: No evidence that Christine Lagarde plans to outlaw cash transactions of more than €1,000

23 Jan

6.7k

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Debunked: Video of Italian Prime Minister does not show her condemning the EU migration pact

22 Jan

5.6k

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Debunked: False claims spread online that Greenland would bypass Denmark in talks with US

19 Jan

3.9k

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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.

17 Jan

5.8k

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Debunked: AI-generated pictures depict male TD in women’s clothes

16 Jan

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