# factcheck - Tuesday 3 August, 2021
# France
# France
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from France in 2018 as a recent anti-restrictions protest.
# factcheck - Thursday 22 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Legal experts said the claim is a complete misrepresentation of the law.
# factcheck - Sunday 18 July, 2021
# Rollout
# Rollout
A tweet by the Taoiseach lacked some context on exactly how well Ireland is performing.
# factcheck - Saturday 17 July, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
An “error” led to around 160 students receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine,.
# factcheck - Friday 16 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim has circulated widely on social media in recent weeks.
# factcheck - Sunday 11 July, 2021
# Factcheck
Dolores Cahill claimed in a by-election leaflet that mRNA vaccines "have never been approved". This is untrue, Orla Dwyer reports. Cahill also made a misleading claim about deaths associated with vaccine clinical trials. Cahill was a candidate in the Dublin Bay South by-election. She was eliminated on the third count.
# factcheck - Saturday 10 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim has been shared on Facebook.
# factcheck - Friday 9 July, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
An independent TD claimed that the official vaccine figures refer to the number of appointments made rather than doses administered.
# factcheck - Tuesday 6 July, 2021
# Covid-19 Facts
# Covid-19 Facts
The claim has been shared widely online.
# factcheck - Sunday 4 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Claims which rely on the EudraVigilance and VAERS databases are often misleading.
# factcheck - Tuesday 29 June, 2021
# Covid Restrictions
# Covid Restrictions
The claim was first made last Friday. The Journal FactCheck finds it to be true.
# factcheck - Saturday 26 June, 2021
# Debunk
# Debunk
A social media claim is wrongly saying that sunglasses are harmful.
# factcheck - Saturday 19 June, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
A leaflet by Anti-Corruption Ireland contains a list of false statements about masks and their effectiveness.
# factcheck - Friday 18 June, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
A video shared online claimed that because antibodies produced as a result of the vaccine are in the blood, they don’t protect against Covid infection. This is false.
# factcheck - Thursday 17 June, 2021
# Debunk
# Debunk
Vaccines are being rolled out on a prison-by-prison basis and jabs are administered by National Ambulance Service staff.
# factcheck - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Mortality Misinfo
Anti-lockdown accounts on social media often leave out important context or misconstrue data to argue that the pandemic is not real. A disinformation professor at DCU says online misinformation often draws on "a grain of truth" - and then distorts it. Lauren Boland breaks down the official statistics and how you can find the facts.
# factcheck - Sunday 30 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Mike Yeadon is regularly cited by anti-lockdown groups.
# factcheck - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Different versions of the message have appeared in recent days.
# factcheck - Friday 21 May, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claims about insurance cover were included in a video on Dolores Cahill’s Facebook page.
# factcheck - Saturday 15 May, 2021
# Covid19 Facts
# Covid19 Facts
All four vaccines approved for use in Ireland have been tested on animals as well as humans.
# factcheck - Friday 14 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claims have been made in recent weeks.
# factcheck - Saturday 8 May, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A recent article in the Westmeath Topic, which was reshared by other users on social media, suggested that this information is being hidden.
# factcheck - Friday 7 May, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The misleading article was widely shared on social media before it was removed by Gript.
# factcheck - Thursday 6 May, 2021
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
The annual fundraiser by Pieta House is going ahead this weekend, despite anti-lockdown activists announcing an alternative event for that date.
# factcheck - Friday 30 April, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Black people are fatally shot by US police at a higher rate than white people relative to their proportion of the population.
# factcheck - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Covid-19 Facts
# Covid-19 Facts
The post has been seen more than 20,000 times on Facebook.
# factcheck - Sunday 25 April, 2021
# Covid19 Facts
# Covid19 Facts
O’Neill has said he will take any vaccine offered to him – when he is eligible for one.
# factcheck - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Podcast
# Podcast
From WhatsApp messages to conspiracy theories, we explore how misinformation has evolved over the last 12 months.
# factcheck - Tuesday 13 April, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim was circulated on WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook this week.
# factcheck - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Zero Covid
# Zero Covid
Leo Varadkar was talking about the Zero Covid strategy and mandatory hotel quarantine.
# factcheck - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A lot of studies are being carried out into whether the anti-parasitic drug could be used to treat Covid-19.
# factcheck - Friday 12 March, 2021
# Factfind
# Factfind
Several posts on social media have tried to play down the need for lockdowns by pointing to excess deaths.
# factcheck - Thursday 11 March, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The HSE is still working through the first four cohorts in the sequencing list.
# factcheck - Tuesday 2 March, 2021
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
The leaflet was produced by Renua, the Irish Freedom Party and Direct Democracy Ireland.
# factcheck - Friday 26 February, 2021
# Factfind
# Factfind
Unions have called for regular rapid testing as part of the re-opening of schools next month.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A false flyer advertising a pro-lockdown rally has been incorrectly attributed to People Before Profit and Le Chéile.
# factcheck - Wednesday 24 February, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A social media post has drawn incorrect conclusions to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from Romania in 2017 as a recent anti-restrictions protest.
# factcheck - Friday 19 February, 2021
# Mount Error
# Mount Error
A photo of mountain with unusual clouds above it has been mistakenly labelled as Mount Errigal in Donegal.
# Debunked
# Debunked
Messages flashed on an LED display beside roads are spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
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