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DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson has made the claim multiple times in recent weeks.
Peter Burke made the claim on RTÉ radio.
An image on social media purports to show proof of a flat Earth.
The CDC is the national public health agency in the United States.
Masks, mandates, and war crimes are not mentioned in the Nuremburg Code.
We test claims from Irish website The Liberal that a study implies ‘vaccines were never required to begin with’.
Social media claims this photo shows the cap was on the needle, meaning the injection didn’t happen.
The open letter is addressed to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
The open letter is addressed to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki from over 80 fact-checking organisations around the world.
Is there evidence that alcohol users turn to drugs as a result of the policy?
A video viewed thousands of times on an Irish Facebook page contains incorrect information about the effectiveness of masks.
A number of social media posts have linked Gates – and Microsoft – to the sci-fi game, suggesting Gates was in some way complicit in orchestrating the Covid-19 pandemic.
A protester in Dublin claims her carbon dioxide-measuring device proves masks cause CO2 levels to exceed ‘dangerous’ amounts.
The claim caused a protest outside the Australian Embassy in Dublin
Hint: They are. The variant was first detected from passengers arriving in Australia from abroad.
The claim is contained in a text-based post on Facebook.
The MMA athlete-turned-businessman claimed “The vaccines have not worked to stop this whatsoever.”
The claim is made in an image-based post circulating on Facebook.
The highly publicised trial has attracted false internet-based claims before so let’s take a look at the latest allegations.
A fake vaccine poster claiming to be authorised by the HSE has proved to be fake.
The claim has been doing the rounds on social media in recent weeks.
Instagram feeds have been flooded with the stickers – but it seems unlikely that many trees will actually be planted as a result.
A satirical post claiming that the Green Party leader said the song “promotes car use” has duped people on social media.
The document has been the focus of considerable controversy.
The Taoiseach challenged a TD to produce a quote where he said he was in favour of a reduction of the herd.
Doctors say the claim is an urban legend.
See how we’re fighting misinformation and disinformation every month.
A medical law expert has cast a withering eye on a document that’s circulating online.
A photo shared on Facebook claimed that QR scanners would be used to ask for proof of vaccination.
Varadkar was in London for a music festival, but he did not leave at the weekend and is currently still there for a trade mission.
Claims about vaccines containing the chemical have circulated in recent months.
This name has been used for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine since December last year.
There has been some confusion after an FDA document was misread by some people.
The claim has been shared widely online.
The paper claimed that masks increase children’s carbon dioxide intake, but multiple problems have been identified with its research.