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Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats
Debunked: Enoch Burke isn't forced to stand outside a school for refusing 'transgender ideology'
Debunked: Woman wrongly accused of Satanism for wearing St Brigid's cross at LA fires press event
Debunked: The Hollywood sign still stands, despite AI-generated images of it burning
FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?
Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims
At least 10 dead and over 30 injured after vehicle driven into crowd in New Orleans
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Debunked: No evidence that DHL scam using ‘sorry we missed you’ notes is operating in Ireland
Debunked: Image of Bono and Bob Geldof holding Israeli flags is AI-generated
Debunked: Asylum seekers are not suspects for bloody Mullingar incident, as some posts claim
Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American
Debunked: A failed election candidate was jailed, but not for uncovering election tampering
Debunked: False claims the World Health Organisation will undo human rights have spread online
Debunked: Baseless claims about a cow feed supplement used in attempts to boycott milk
Debunked: Fake AI slop images of old Ireland are being used to push anti-immigrant narratives
Disappointed by failed campaigns, far-right candidates turn to claims of election rigging
Far-right fizzle: Fringe candidates face disappointment as election results come in
Debunked: Images of men at Dublin Airport show EU seasonal workers, not an ‘invasion’
FactCheck: Are a third of hotels and B&Bs outside the M50 used to house asylum seekers?
Debunked: An Post says posts offering to sell undeliverable 'lost parcels' is a scam
FactCheck: Does Fine Gael’s manifesto pledge an additional half a billion Euro to landlords?
Debunked: An image said to show 'unvetted men in Rosslare' was taken in England
Explainer: Fine Gael is promising a €1,000 savings account for newborns, will it work?
Debunked: Man filmed waving Palestinian flag was a Peaky Blinders fan, not actor Cillian Murphy
Debunked: Years-old headline used to suggest Taoiseach wants to bar unvaccinated kids from school
FactFind: What professions are over-represented (and under-represented) in the Dáil?
Teachers are overrepresented – but so are farmers lawyers, landlords and, unsurprisingly, career politicians.
Debunked: Weather manipulation claims are taking hold in Ireland despite no evidence support them
Debunked: Image of a goaty statue in the Vatican is AI-generated, not proof of devil worship
Floods in Valencia prompt conspiracy theories on weather weapons, Israel, migrants, and Netflix
Debunked: Photo of Leonardo DiCaprio’s niece on yacht altered to look like Greta Thunberg
Debunked: Most prisoners in Ireland are Irish, not foreign nationals as some claim
Debunked: Photo of Obama’s visit to Ireland falsely said to show controversial NYC Trump rally
Debunked: Israeli forces did not destroy a base used by Irish peacekeepers in southern Lebanon
Debunked: Claims about Enoch Burke shared in multiple languages as 'misinformation chain mail'
How a 'missing person' scam is luring Irish social media users using old photos of real children
A photo of an American child who was attacked by dogs was claimed to show a child found in Ireland.
Debunked: No, 800 Ukrainian refugees have not applied for asylum in Ireland since August
Debunked: Anti-migrant groups share hoax images of Sinn Féin TDs and 'refugees welcome' slogans
Debunked: Kamala Harris didn't make an ad about a woman regretting not having an abortion
Debunked: A hoax image posted online suggests Sinn Féin and PBP have a joint immigration policy
Debunked: Scam ads featuring images of Dara Ó Briain and Pat Kenny appear on Facebook