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# factcheck - Yesterday’s News
Debunked: No, "COV 19" was not found inscribed on a circuit board for a 5G mast
The claim was made in a video that has gone viral on social media.
Debunked: No, leaving hand sanitiser in your car during hot weather won’t cause it to catch fire
False claims on Facebook suggests the flammable liquid poses a threat if left in a hot car.
# factcheck - Thursday 4 June, 2020
Debunked: No, Italy hasn't discovered that Covid-19 is a bacterium rather than a virus
The Covid-19 disease is caused by a virus, not bacteria.
# factcheck - Tuesday 2 June, 2020
Debunked: No, some Penneys stores are not reopening on a trial basis this week
It appears as though misinformation about Penneys reopening is being deliberately shared in a bid to dupe people.
# factcheck - Saturday 30 May, 2020
Debunked: No, Anthony Fauci did not say a Covid-19 vaccine must be delivered to people without 'proper studies'
Fauci has been falsely quoted on a number of social media posts.
Debunked: Do European air travel guidelines show there is no need to quarantine visitors from overseas?
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary made a number of claims about Covid-19 and air travel on radio this week.
# factcheck - Friday 29 May, 2020
Debunked: No, Bill Gates didn't brief the CIA in 2005 about a vaccine to immunise religious fanatics
The hoax video shows a man who has a passing resemblance to Gates – but it’s a hoax.
Debunked: No, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Anthony Fauci and the WHO are not being charged with genocide
The false message being shared on Facebook claims they are due to appear before a human rights tribunal next week.
'We're fed up with it': Trump signs executive order following factchecking row with Twitter
Trump said the factchecks were ‘editorial decisions’ by Twitter and amounted to political activism.
# factcheck - Wednesday 27 May, 2020
Debunked: No, Italy does not want to charge Bill Gates with crimes against humanity
The claim has its origins in a speech made by Sara Cunial, a member of the Italian Parliament.
# factcheck - Tuesday 26 May, 2020
Debunked: No, Donald Trump did not say he'd run as a Republican because of their 'dumb voters'
A commonly-shared image purporting to be from a 1998 interview with People Magazine is a fake.
# factcheck - Friday 22 May, 2020
Debunked: No, the world has not been wrongly treating Covid-19 as pneumonia
A post on Facebook claims that medics should treat Covid-19 as thrombosis, not pneumonia.
Debunked: No, the 'survival rate' for Covid-19 is not above 99.9%
This claim has been going around the internet for the past week.
# factcheck - Thursday 21 May, 2020
FactFind: Here is how Covid-19 deaths are counted in Ireland
In some widely shared posts on social media, people have claimed that deaths are incorrectly being put down to the virus.
# factcheck - Friday 15 May, 2020
Debunked: No, TheJournal.ie is not closing down
We’re extremely happy to be able to debunk this one.
# factcheck - Wednesday 13 May, 2020
Debunked: The viral video Plandemic makes a series of false claims about Covid-19
The 26-minute video was viewed millions of times before social media giants took it down.
# factcheck - Tuesday 12 May, 2020
Debunked: No, the government hasn't issued a €350 payment to everyone in the country
Members of the public have been warned about a text scam in recent days.
# factcheck - Monday 11 May, 2020
Debunked: No, a Nazi flag was not flown in Belfast on VE day
The picture shared in a Facebook post is real, but it is from July 2015.
# factcheck - Saturday 9 May, 2020
Debunked: TheJournal.ie and other outlets are not organising a 'clap for our government' tonight
A fake image on social media claims that media organisations and Fine Gael are calling for people to applaud the government tonight.
# factcheck - Thursday 7 May, 2020
Debunked: No, Ireland's golf courses did not reopen on Saturday
A letter claiming to be from Golf Union Ireland stated golf courses were set to reopen on 2 May.
# factcheck - Wednesday 6 May, 2020
Debunked: No, this video does not show people having a 'street party' in Dublin last week
A post shared on Facebook claims to show a party taking place in Dublin on 1 May, but the footage is older than that.
Debunked: Sorry, that 'announcement ' from Penneys saying it's reopening on 8 June is fake
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
# factcheck - Tuesday 5 May, 2020
Debunked: No, the British army is not setting up a 'military camp' at Long Kesh prison
A post on Facebook claims that the British army are to set up a ‘military camp’ at the site of the former Maze Prison.
# factcheck - Saturday 2 May, 2020
Debunked: No, postural drainage is not an 'easy' way to treat Covid-19 pneumonia
The HSE said routine breathing tests and mobilising are more appropriate for Covid-19 patients than this method.
# factcheck - Thursday 30 April, 2020
Debunked: No, a Japanese Nobel Prize winner did not say the coronavirus was man-made
He did not say anything of the sort.
Debunked: No, researchers did not 'invent' the coronavirus in 2015
Posts speculating about the origin of the virus have been widely shared in recent weeks.
# factcheck - Wednesday 29 April, 2020
Debunked: No, this footage does not show NPHET members ignoring social distancing
An image was widely shared on social media after file footage appeared on RTÉ news bulletins.
Debunked: No, this message from a Covid-19 app asking why a person is 20km from home is not real
The false message originated in Australia but is being widely shared here.
# factcheck - Tuesday 28 April, 2020
Not enough is being done to label fake news on social media sites - report
FuJo Director Jane Suiter said that the “most significant shortcoming of empowering consumers” was labelling trustworthy content.
Debunked: No, this image does not show an official government announcement about the lifting of restrictions
This image has been shared widely on WhatsApp recently.
# factcheck - Thursday 23 April, 2020
Debunked: No, there wasn't a vaccine for Covid-19 back in 2001
A piece of misinformation being shared widely claims that a vaccine existed 19 years ago. This is untrue.
Debunked: No, Donald Trump didn't tweet he'd 'never let thousands die' in a pandemic back in 2009
The US President says lots of things. But he didn’t say this.
# factcheck - Wednesday 22 April, 2020
Debunked: No, WhatsApp isn't about to start charging users to send messages
A message circulating WhatsApp claims that the platform is going to start charging users from “Saturday morning”.
# factcheck - Saturday 18 April, 2020
Debunked: Is 2020 really a 'normal' year for deaths from respiratory illnesses?
A post on Facebook claims there are no more deaths ‘than usual’ as a result of Covid-19.
# factcheck - Friday 17 April, 2020
Debunked: No, this is not a picture of Bulgarian workers outside a supermarket in Dublin this week
The photo has been widely shared on social media and messaging services.
Debunked: No, Queen Elizabeth's coronavirus speech was not recorded on 5 March
A post on Facebook claiming that Queen Elizabeth’s speech regarding the coronavirus outbreak is untrue.
# factcheck - Thursday 16 April, 2020
Debunked: There's no evidence that criminals are dousing facemasks with chemicals so they can rob people
The false message has been shared across Facebook and WhatsApp in Ireland and other countries.
# factcheck - Wednesday 15 April, 2020
Debunked: No, this isn't a 'tentative' list of dates the government might start letting things reopen
This message has been circulating today in WhatsApp Groups – the Chief Medical Officer says “no such list exists” right now.
Debunked: No, watered-down mouthwash is not an effective substitute for hand sanitiser
It is also not an effective surface disinfectant.
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Poll: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they're permitted to open on 29 June?
THE PLAN TO re-open Ireland has accelerated rapidly, after the Taoiseach yesterday announced a string of guidelines that had been brought forward.
One of those guidelines concerns pubs. The original plan had been to re-open them at the beginning of Phase Five in August, but under the new plans pubs that serve food will be permitted to open when Phase Three begins on 29 June.
They do not require a restaurant licence to open but must comply with strict social distancing protocols which would prohibit gatherings around the bar and require people to be served at appropriately spaced tables.
Chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan urged pubs to be “sensible” yesterday, and added that a few “fellas drinking pints and eating a packet of peanuts” will not constitute a pub operating as a restaurant.
Restaurants will also be permitted to open from this date, as long as they adhere to the above protocols.
So, today we’re asking you: Will you go to a pub/restaurant when they’re permitted to open on 29 June?
Poll Results:
I'll leave it a week or two, maybe longer (4713)
No (3313)
Maybe sometime during that week (3000)
Yes, on the 29th (2462)
I wouldn't usually frequent them anyway (1125)
Not sure (906)
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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