# debunked - Friday 18 September, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The Covid-19 swab is not powerful enough to break through bone, a professor said.
# debunked - Thursday 17 September, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The fake advertisement was shared on social media following protests in Dublin at the weekend.
# debunked - Friday 11 September, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
It’s been claimed that the World Bank was recording exports of Covid-19 tests up to three years ago.
# debunked - Tuesday 8 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
In the video, Ben Gilroy makes a number of false and misleading claims about coronavirus and suicide in Ireland.
# debunked - Friday 4 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
The claim has spread widely on Facebook and Twitter and has caused significant distress.
# debunked - Thursday 3 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
The Green Party leader has come in for criticism after a new clip appears to show him nodding off again.
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim, which is being shared in a voice memo on WhatsApp, is not true.
# debunked - Tuesday 1 September, 2020
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# Factcheck
A clip from a speech Varadkar made at the Global Vaccine Summit has been used to claim he said he supports forced vaccination for everyone in Ireland.
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# Factcheck
Posts on social media have represented anti-government protests in Seoul as anti-coronavirus restrictions.
# debunked - Friday 28 August, 2020
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# Debunked
An image containing three misleading claims about the Green Party TD has been circulating online.
# Debunk
# Debunk
Variations of the same post have been widely shared on Facebook.
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
Children aged two to 12 years can get the flu jab for free this year, but it’s not compulsory.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The post is part of a category of conspiracies that has targeted contact tracing apps launched to help stop the spread of Covid-19.
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# Factcheck
The claim was widely shared on Facebook.
# debunked - Thursday 27 August, 2020
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# Factcheck
False claims on social media have suggested that Monaghan County Council is moving the cross to appease the Muslim community.
# debunked - Sunday 23 August, 2020
# Carbon Dioxide
# Carbon Dioxide
A widely shared Facebook post incorrectly claims that wearing a mask causes people to breathe in their own carbon dioxide.
# debunked - Sunday 16 August, 2020
# Echo Chamber
# Echo Chamber
Misinformation has never been more widely shared in Ireland than during the Covid-19 pandemic.
# debunked - Friday 14 August, 2020
# Elisa Granato
# Elisa Granato
Elisa Granato was one of the first volunteers in a Covid-19 vaccine trial in the UK – and she’s alive and well.
# debunked - Tuesday 11 August, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
A poster in Dublin claims that Gardaí will reward members of the public if they report house parties.
# debunked - Saturday 8 August, 2020
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# Debunked
There have been fewer cases of legionella infection in Ireland this year compared to last year.
# debunked - Wednesday 5 August, 2020
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# Debunked
A false tweet from the Green Party leader claims he said he was “excited to meet” Tatchell two years ago.
# debunked - Tuesday 4 August, 2020
# In The Doghouse
# In The Doghouse
Social media users have claimed that dog thieves are using stickers on ESB mini pillars to mark houses where dogs will be stolen.
# debunked - Wednesday 29 July, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
Theories claim adrenochrome is harvested from children in a trafficking ring.
# debunked - Sunday 26 July, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim had been made by social media users.
# debunked - Friday 24 July, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
A widely shared Facebook post incorrectly claims that medications which ‘cure’ the virus have been banned in Ireland.
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
This claim has been shared frequently in the past week – but it is misleading at best.
# Cold Case
# Cold Case
A claim that started in the US, which suggests that a case of cold or flu, or a previous vaccine against them, can give a positive Covid-19 test result, has reached Ireland.
# Bat An Eye
# Bat An Eye
A photograph of Obama in Maryland has been falsely attributed to a laboratory in Wuhan.
# debunked - Tuesday 21 July, 2020
# Natwest
# Natwest
A tweet sharing a photo of a notice at a NatWest branch suggests that the notice was displayed in Belfast.
# debunked - Friday 17 July, 2020
# ATM SCAM
# ATM SCAM
The false safety tip has been shared over 19,000 times on Facebook.
# debunked - Wednesday 15 July, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim was made by TheLiberal.ie ahead of Eid Al Adha celebrations in Croke Park this summer.
# debunked - Wednesday 8 July, 2020
# Podcast
# Podcast
And is it here to stay?
# debunked - Monday 6 July, 2020
# Zoom Webinar
# Zoom Webinar
A panel of experts explore one of the major ways the coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives.
# debunked - Friday 3 July, 2020
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
A Hiqa report has noted a 13% increase in deaths in Ireland during the pandemic.
# debunked - Thursday 2 July, 2020
# EP Webinar
# EP Webinar
Join TheJournal.ie and a panel of experts tomorrow to explore another way the coronavirus pandemic has changed our lives.
# debunked - Sunday 28 June, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Posts that are being shared on social media claim Irish people ‘experienced the horrors of slavery’ more than African people.
# debunked - Thursday 25 June, 2020
# INMO
# INMO
The claim was made by INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha.
# debunked - Wednesday 24 June, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The letter was confirmed as a fake by the UK Cabinet Office.
# debunked - Tuesday 23 June, 2020
# Debunked
# Debunked
The original image, which has been doctored, showed Trump with his daughter Ivanka in the 1990s.
# debunked - Thursday 18 June, 2020
# Debunk
# Debunk
Slave trading from Africa to the Americas began around 100 years before 1619, and indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery.
