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# debunked

Last year
2023
Debunked: Claims that an NFL player collapsed due to a Covid-19 vaccine are completely unfounded
7 Jan 2023
12.5k
Debunked: No, refugees are not still being housed at a school in Drimnagh
5 Jan 2023
18.5k
All time
'A young girl has lost her life': Unproven claim about homeless death spreads from Facebook to the Dáil
13 Dec 2022
65.0k
Debunked: Conspiracy theory 'documentary' repeats long-disproven claims about Covid vaccines
8 Dec 2022
6.1k
Debunked: Asylum seekers, not economic migrants, are being housed at the East Wall building
2 Dec 2022
7.7k
Debunk: No, these maps don't show large areas of Irish cities that 'could be underwater’ by 2050
11 Nov 2022
39.9k
Debunked: Five common climate myths and why they're wrong
6 Nov 2022
26.9k
Debunked: No, the NI Protocol has not impacted on heart surgeries in Northern Ireland
2 Nov 2022
15.6k
Debunked: World Economic Forum did not say Covid lockdowns were test for ‘social-credit scheme’
5 Oct 2022
7.1k
Debunked: No, excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not down to natural causes
29 Sep 2022
3.9k
Debunked: No, 35km queues of traffic have not formed at the Russia-Finland border
21 Sep 2022
37.4k
Debunked: Climate change is real - it is not a 'hoax' or a 'scam' designed to control people
19 Sep 2022
3.2k
Debunked: Tony Cascarino did not throw his takeaway in the bin and other fake queen claims
9 Sep 2022
39.4k
Debunked: Teacher wasn't jailed over pronouns, but for breaking a court order by going to school
8 Sep 2022
11.2k
Debunked: A quote by Yuval Noah Harari that technology will 'replace people' is missing context
2 Sep 2022
9.2k
FactCheck: Sign up to The Journal's monthly newsletter about misinformation trends
30 Aug 2022
7.4k
Debunked: Figures on Covid-19 deaths and underlying conditions have been taken out of context
28 Aug 2022
23.2k
Debunked: Yes, cows are a 'problem' when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions
19 Aug 2022
45.1k
13
Debunked: It is misleading to claim that 30-degree heat is 'normal' during an Irish summer
13 Aug 2022
28.1k
Debunked: A claim that the UN accused Ukrainian forces of using 'human shields' is missing context
12 Aug 2022
11.7k
Debunked: No, The Journal didn't report a man's death from monkeypox after his 'parachute failed'
9 Aug 2022
2.4k
Debunked: No, The Journal did not report that monkeypox lives on toilets for 120 years
9 Aug 2022
1.2k
Debunked: Is it potentially dangerous to give dogs ice during high temperatures?
28 Jul 2022
3.8k
Debunked: A drone image of lightning striking the Poolbeg towers has been digitally altered
20 Jul 2022
60.0k
Debunked: The pain from a kick in the testicles is not the same as giving birth to 160 children at once
1 Jul 2022
335k
Debunked: No, the UN did not warn of '500 million refugees on their way from Africa to Europe'
27 Jun 2022
12.1k
Debunked: Video game footage misleadingly re-packaged as footage from the war in Ukraine
3 Jun 2022
18.4k
FactCheck: Is this a photo of Dynamo Kyiv players armed in military gear?
14 Apr 2022
34.4k
Debunked: These are not celebrity reactions to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
28 Mar 2022
53.4k
Debunked: No, this is not an 8-year-old Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier.
9 Mar 2022
42.7k
Debunked: No, these are not photos of the President and First Lady of Ukraine fighting on the front line
4 Mar 2022
52.7k
FactCheck: Is this footage of the famed Ghost of Kyiv?
2 Mar 2022
41.5k
Debunk: No, this isn't a photo of Meryl Streep after a director said she was 'too ugly' for a role
2 Mar 2022
52.6k
Debunked: No, this photo of a ship in the Antarctic does not prove that the Earth is flat
3 Feb 2022
44.1k
Debunked: No, the CDC is not selling $4.6 billion worth of vaccines each year
28 Jan 2022
1.5k
Debunked: No, mask mandates are not a 'war crime' that break the Nuremberg Code
28 Jan 2022
12.5k
Debunked: No, this politician didn't fake his Covid vaccine booster
19 Jan 2022
2.5k
FactCheck: This Irish video about masks is incorrect to claim they do not work against Covid-19
28 Dec 2021
23.8k
Debunked: No, 80% of Covid deaths during October were not in fully vaccinated people
7 Dec 2021
4.7k
FactCheck: No, Conor McGregor wasn't correct to say vaccines 'have not worked' to stop Covid-19
7 Dec 2021
34.0k
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