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Debunked: No, this is not an 8-year-old Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier.
These are old photos of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist.
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These are old photos of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist.
The photos widely shared on Facebook and Twitter are old and out of context.
The actress did miss out on the part, but this photo isn’t as claimed
A video viewed thousands of times on an Irish Facebook page contains incorrect information about the effectiveness of masks.
Hint: They are. The variant was first detected from passengers arriving in Australia from abroad.
A satirical post claiming that the Green Party leader said the song “promotes car use” has duped people on social media.
A medical law expert has cast a withering eye on a document that’s circulating online.
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.
The paper claimed that masks increase children’s carbon dioxide intake, but multiple problems have been identified with its research.
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from Turkey in 2018 as a flight leaving Afghanistan in recent days.
An independent TD claimed that the official vaccine figures refer to the number of appointments made rather than doses administered.
The claim has been shared widely online.
A social media claim is wrongly saying that sunglasses are harmful.
Vaccines are being rolled out on a prison-by-prison basis and jabs are administered by National Ambulance Service staff.
He wasn’t even drinking Guinness.
The claim is being made and shared online – with people claiming ‘vaccine shedding’ is happening.
Black people are fatally shot by US police at a higher rate than white people relative to their proportion of the population.
The post has been seen more than 20,000 times on Facebook.
O’Neill has said he will take any vaccine offered to him – when he is eligible for one.
From WhatsApp messages to conspiracy theories, we explore how misinformation has evolved over the last 12 months.
The claim was circulated on WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook this week.
The HSE is still working through the first four cohorts in the sequencing list.
A photo of mountain with unusual clouds above it has been mistakenly labelled as Mount Errigal in Donegal.
Studies have shown that masks can help prevent the spread of the virus.
False claims on social media have inaccurately attributed a quote to the World Health Organization.
A poster that falsely claims to have been published by the HSE is being shared on social media.
The Northern Trust has said that claims of lies about hospital capacity in the North are “ridiculous”.
A post on social media has falsely claimed that the NHS confirmed no Covid-19 deaths occurred among people without a pre-existing condition.
Staff from RTÉ did have a social gathering earlier this month – but this photo does not show it.
Posts on social media have wrongly claimed that PCR testing is inaccurate and produces a high rate of false positive results.
Here are some claims of electoral fraud being spread on social media, and the facts behind those claims.
The figures in question refer to the number of deaths registered for that month so far, not the total number of people who died.
A widely shared Facebook video incorrectly claims that 100 people, not 1,777, have died because of the virus in Ireland.
Variations of the same post have been widely shared on Facebook.
The claim was widely shared on Facebook.
Elisa Granato was one of the first volunteers in a Covid-19 vaccine trial in the UK – and she’s alive and well.
A widely shared Facebook post incorrectly claims that medications which ‘cure’ the virus have been banned in Ireland.
This claim has been shared frequently in the past week – but it is misleading at best.
Slave trading from Africa to the Americas began around 100 years before 1619, and indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery.