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# factcheck

All time
FactFind: Here is how Covid-19 deaths are counted in Ireland
Updated 3 Jul 2020
93.8k
101
Join the Zoom discussion: How Covid-19 brought misinformation to Ireland
2 Jul 2020
34.2k
Debunked: Irish people in colonies were not slaves - they were indentured servants
28 Jun 2020
106k
165
FactCheck: Does Ireland have the highest Covid-19 infection rate for healthcare workers in the world?
25 Jun 2020
32.3k
44
Debunked: No, all UK residents won't have to get microchipped starting from January 2021
24 Jun 2020
13.3k
8
Debunked: This photograph showing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein embracing is a fake
23 Jun 2020
22.2k
0
Debunked: Irish people were not the first slaves to arrive in the American colonies
18 Jun 2020
64.9k
124
Debunked: No, contact tracing apps have not been installed on every Android phone
16 Jun 2020
11.7k
21
Debunked: It's false to claim that fewer than 100 people have died directly from Covid-19
12 Jun 2020
2.0k
2
Debunked: No, Leo Varadkar is not going to the Supreme Court to make a coronavirus vaccine mandatory
11 Jun 2020
1.3k
1
Debunked: No, "COV 19" was not found inscribed on a circuit board for a 5G mast
5 Jun 2020
31.3k
42
Debunked: No, leaving hand sanitiser in your car during hot weather won’t cause it to catch fire
5 Jun 2020
29.0k
24
Debunked: No, Italy hasn't discovered that Covid-19 is a bacterium rather than a virus
4 Jun 2020
43.4k
24
Debunked: No, some Penneys stores are not reopening on a trial basis this week
2 Jun 2020
25.0k
9
Debunked: No, Anthony Fauci did not say a Covid-19 vaccine must be delivered to people without 'proper studies'
30 May 2020
30.0k
77
Debunked: Do European air travel guidelines show there is no need to quarantine visitors from overseas?
30 May 2020
42.5k
91
Debunked: No, Bill Gates didn't brief the CIA in 2005 about a vaccine to immunise religious fanatics
29 May 2020
77.0k
3
Debunked: No, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, Anthony Fauci and the WHO are not being charged with genocide
29 May 2020
58.2k
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'We're fed up with it': Trump signs executive order following factchecking row with Twitter
29 May 2020
39.0k
100
Debunked: No, Italy does not want to charge Bill Gates with crimes against humanity
27 May 2020
23.2k
108
Debunked: No, Donald Trump did not say he'd run as a Republican because of their 'dumb voters'
26 May 2020
33.6k
29
Debunked: No, the world has not been wrongly treating Covid-19 as pneumonia
22 May 2020
27.9k
4
Debunked: No, the 'survival rate' for Covid-19 is not above 99.9%
22 May 2020
125k
124
Debunked: No, TheJournal.ie is not closing down
15 May 2020
2.0k
0
Debunked: The viral video Plandemic makes a series of false claims about Covid-19
13 May 2020
29.0k
191
Debunked: No, the government hasn't issued a €350 payment to everyone in the country
12 May 2020
21.6k
30
Debunked: No, a Nazi flag was not flown in Belfast on VE day
11 May 2020
27.3k
74
Debunked: TheJournal.ie and other outlets are not organising a 'clap for our government' tonight
9 May 2020
30.6k
73
Debunked: No, Ireland's golf courses did not reopen on Saturday
7 May 2020
23.9k
16
Debunked: No, this video does not show people having a 'street party' in Dublin last week
6 May 2020
38.2k
19
Debunked: Sorry, that 'announcement ' from Penneys saying it's reopening on 8 June is fake
6 May 2020
111k
34
Debunked: No, the British army is not setting up a 'military camp' at Long Kesh prison
5 May 2020
677
0
Debunked: No, postural drainage is not an 'easy' way to treat Covid-19 pneumonia
2 May 2020
33.5k
17
Debunked: No, a Japanese Nobel Prize winner did not say the coronavirus was man-made
30 Apr 2020
21.0k
39
Debunked: No, researchers did not 'invent' the coronavirus in 2015
30 Apr 2020
5.8k
4
Debunked: No, this footage does not show NPHET members ignoring social distancing
29 Apr 2020
36.6k
24
Debunked: No, this message from a Covid-19 app asking why a person is 20km from home is not real
29 Apr 2020
24.8k
21
Not enough is being done to label fake news on social media sites - report
28 Apr 2020
9.1k
26
Debunked: No, this image does not show an official government announcement about the lifting of restrictions
28 Apr 2020
37.2k
12
Debunked: No, there wasn't a vaccine for Covid-19 back in 2001
23 Apr 2020
27.5k
30
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