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# factcheck

This week
21st July 2024 - 27th July 2024
'Unlikely to survive the night': False rumours about Joe Biden's demise are going viral online
Stephen McDermott
23 Jul
21.2k
Debunked: Ursula von der Leyen's husband is not the director of a company owned by Pfizer
22 Jul
79
Last week
14th July 2024 - 27th July 2024
Debunked: Bus company refutes claims it wouldn't drive 150 asylum seekers into Coolock site
17 Jul
26.3k
Coolock: Disinformation included claims about 'unvetted males' and 'white destruction'
16 Jul
15.7k
This month
July 2024
FactCheck: Do two new PESCO projects mean Irish troops will be sent off to fight?
12 Jul
7.9k
FactCheck: Tánaiste says First Home Scheme can't be used for Oscar Traynor Road affordable homes
4 Jul
15.9k
Debunked: A comparison of US temperatures in May 1896 and May 2024 is misleading
1 Jul
13.2k
Last month
June 2024
Debunked: Condensation trails after airplanes aren't signs of intentional climate modification
27 Jun
13.9k
Debunked: Visiting restrictions at Tallaght Hospital are due to viruses, despite conspiracy theories
27 Jun
13.6k
FactCheck: How many times did the Dáil discuss the EU Nature Restoration Law?
Newly elected MEP Ciaran Mullooly claims the law was not properly scrutinised by TDs.
20 Jun
7.2k
Debunked: Why terms like 'illegals' and 'people trafficking' mischaracterise the asylum system
20 Jun
4.9k
Debunked: Ireland has not agreed to 'arrest citizens who speak out against the Bird Flu vaccine’
18 Jun
507
Debunked: A US appeals court did not rule that mRNA shots are not really 'vaccines'
14 Jun
4.9k
Debunked: Fabricated quotes and made-up commentators feature in 'vote-rigging' news story
12 Jun
7.0k
20 years of legal migrant voting in Ireland but conspiracies about it are being shared online
7 Jun
18.5k
Debunked: Child sexual abuse material still illegal in Germany despite decriminalisation claims
6 Jun
2.6k
How Ireland's non-white election candidates are targeted with misinformation and racist abuse
6 Jun
4.8k
May
May 2024
Debunked: High Court did not rule that ‘illegal immigrants should be paid €318 per week’
31 May
443
Debunked: Image of burning house in rural Ireland is AI-generated and not a real arson attack
30 May
250
Debunked: Man charged with alleged knife offences in Dublin was Irish, not a foreign national
29 May
323
Debunked: One political party's false election claims on immigration, neutrality and NATO
A leaflet by Ireland First contains a number of inaccuracies.
Shane Raymond
29 May
29.2k
The disinfluencers: How over 150 anonymous 'Irish' accounts are swamping X with extreme views
The accounts could be part of a wider ‘influence operation’ in Ireland.
An analysis of anonymous accounts on the platform formerly known as Twitter found a potential 'influence operation' ahead of the June elections.
Some accounts showed signs of being operated by non-Irish users, despite claiming to be Irish and posting almost exclusively about Irish political issues.
X policy states that accounts should not "pose as someone who doesn’t exist to mislead others".
Stephen McDermott
11 hrs ago
31.9k
Debunked: Hoax claim that wife of man who shot Slovakia PM Robert Fico is a Ukrainian refugee
20 May
255
Debunked: The number of 'illegally present immigrants' in Ireland last year was not 10 times the EU average
13 May
14.2k
Debunked: Police at Newtownmountkennedy clashes were Gardaí, not PSNI officers
10 May
534
Debunked: Deepfaked Michael O’Leary appears in scam ad pushing financial platform ‘Ryan Chain’
7 May
10.2k
April
April 2024
Debunked: Image of Garda standoff shared after Newtownmountkennedy protests is AI-generated
30 Apr
43.8k
Debunked: The Ukraine Credit Guarantee Scheme is not closed to Irish businesses. It's for them.
29 Apr
9.1k
FactCheck: Did Sinn Féin really propose spending €500m less on health than the Government?
The claim was made by Taoiseach Simon Harris last week in the Dáil.
28 Apr
29.1k
Debunked: Posts ‘as Gaeilge’ among more than 100 scam ads featuring presenter Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
25 Apr
12.2k
The Journal FactCheck launches new resource around Ireland's biggest talking points
23 Apr
4.4k
Debunked: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not buy a British Royal residence
17 Apr
8.8k
Debunked: Nazis falsely identified as members of Ursula von der Leyen’s family
11 Apr
10.8k
Debunked: No, the European Union has not told Ireland to delay a general election
11 Apr
5.3k
FactCheck: Are psychiatric patients in Canada given leaflets for assisted dying when they go to A&E?
10 Apr
11.6k
Debunked: Posts advertising free online further education certificate courses are a scam
9 Apr
8.3k
Debunked: Fake frame from Simpsons episode used to say show predicted Baltimore bridge disaster
5 Apr
2.8k
March
March 2024
Debunked: A historical chart in an old IPCC report does not show that climate change is a hoax
28 Mar
2.0k
Debunked: ‘Ireland will change forever’ conspiracy meme is contradictory and nonsensical
25 Mar
1.1k
Debunked: Chart used to criticise Dublin actually shows ranking for homelessness services
20 Mar
11.6k
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