# debunk - Wednesday 9 March, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
These are old photos of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist.
# debunk - Friday 4 March, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
The photos widely shared on Facebook and Twitter are old and out of context.
# debunk - Wednesday 2 March, 2022
# Meryl Streep
# Meryl Streep
The actress did miss out on the part, but this photo isn’t as claimed
# debunk - Tuesday 28 December, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
A video viewed thousands of times on an Irish Facebook page contains incorrect information about the effectiveness of masks.
# debunk - Tuesday 7 December, 2021
# Debunk
# Debunk
Hint: They are. The variant was first detected from passengers arriving in Australia from abroad.
# debunk - Tuesday 2 November, 2021
# Satire
# Satire
A satirical post claiming that the Green Party leader said the song “promotes car use” has duped people on social media.
# debunk - Friday 17 September, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
A medical law expert has cast a withering eye on a document that’s circulating online.
# debunk - Monday 6 September, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
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.
# debunk - Sunday 22 August, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The paper claimed that masks increase children’s carbon dioxide intake, but multiple problems have been identified with its research.
# debunk - Wednesday 18 August, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from Turkey in 2018 as a flight leaving Afghanistan in recent days.
# debunk - 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.
# debunk - Tuesday 6 July, 2021
# Covid-19 Facts
# Covid-19 Facts
The claim has been shared widely online.
# debunk - Saturday 26 June, 2021
# Debunk
# Debunk
A social media claim is wrongly saying that sunglasses are harmful.
# debunk - 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.
# debunk - Saturday 1 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
He wasn’t even drinking Guinness.
# debunk - Friday 30 April, 2021
The claim is being made and shared online – with people claiming ‘vaccine shedding’ is happening.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Black people are fatally shot by US police at a higher rate than white people relative to their proportion of the population.
# debunk - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Covid-19 Facts
# Covid-19 Facts
The post has been seen more than 20,000 times on Facebook.
# debunk - 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.
# debunk - Thursday 15 April, 2021
# Podcast
# Podcast
From WhatsApp messages to conspiracy theories, we explore how misinformation has evolved over the last 12 months.
# debunk - Tuesday 13 April, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim was circulated on WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook this week.
# debunk - Thursday 11 March, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The HSE is still working through the first four cohorts in the sequencing list.
# debunk - 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.
# debunk - Friday 15 January, 2021
# Debunk
# Debunk
Studies have shown that masks can help prevent the spread of the virus.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
False claims on social media have inaccurately attributed a quote to the World Health Organization.
# debunk - Friday 8 January, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A poster that falsely claims to have been published by the HSE is being shared on social media.
# debunk - Monday 28 December, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The Northern Trust has said that claims of lies about hospital capacity in the North are “ridiculous”.
# debunk - Thursday 17 December, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A post on social media has falsely claimed that the NHS confirmed no Covid-19 deaths occurred among people without a pre-existing condition.
# debunk - Thursday 26 November, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Staff from RTÉ did have a social gathering earlier this month – but this photo does not show it.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Posts on social media have wrongly claimed that PCR testing is inaccurate and produces a high rate of false positive results.
# debunk - Thursday 5 November, 2020
# Debunk
# Debunk
Here are some claims of electoral fraud being spread on social media, and the facts behind those claims.
# debunk - Friday 11 September, 2020
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
The figures in question refer to the number of deaths registered for that month so far, not the total number of people who died.
# debunk - Tuesday 8 September, 2020
# Misinformation
# Misinformation
A widely shared Facebook video incorrectly claims that 100 people, not 1,777, have died because of the virus in Ireland.
# debunk - Friday 28 August, 2020
# Debunk
# Debunk
Variations of the same post have been widely shared on Facebook.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim was widely shared on Facebook.
# debunk - Friday 14 August, 2020
# Elisa Granato
# Elisa Granato
Elisa Granato was one of the first volunteers in a Covid-19 vaccine trial in the UK – and she’s alive and well.
# debunk - Friday 24 July, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
A widely shared Facebook post incorrectly claims that medications which ‘cure’ the virus have been banned in Ireland.
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
This claim has been shared frequently in the past week – but it is misleading at best.
# debunk - Thursday 18 June, 2020
# Debunk
# Debunk
Slave trading from Africa to the Americas began around 100 years before 1619, and indentured servitude is not the same as chattel slavery.
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