# debunked - Friday 3 June, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
Fake footage from the game Arma 3 has been doing the rounds.
# debunked - Thursday 14 April, 2022
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Social media posts claim ‘football practice is off the schedule’ as one of Ukraine’s most successful teams kits out in army combats to join the mililtary.
# debunked - Monday 28 March, 2022
# Oscars 2022
# Oscars 2022
These are reactions from another scandal-making moment at the 2017 Oscars where the wrong winner was announced.
# debunked - Wednesday 9 March, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
These are old photos of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist.
# debunked - Friday 4 March, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
The photos widely shared on Facebook and Twitter are old and out of context.
# debunked - Wednesday 2 March, 2022
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Reports of the ‘ace’ fighter pilot protecting the skies of Kyiv gave hope to Ukrainian resistance but is footage on social media real?
# Meryl Streep
# Meryl Streep
The actress did miss out on the part, but this photo isn’t as claimed
# debunked - Thursday 3 February, 2022
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# Debunked
An image on social media purports to show proof of a flat Earth.
# debunked - Friday 28 January, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
The CDC is the national public health agency in the United States.
# Mask Mandates
# Mask Mandates
Masks, mandates, and war crimes are not mentioned in the Nuremburg Code.
# debunked - Wednesday 19 January, 2022
# Debunked
# Debunked
Social media claims this photo shows the cap was on the needle, meaning the injection didn’t happen.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - Tuesday 7 December, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim is contained in a text-based post on Facebook.
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The MMA athlete-turned-businessman claimed “The vaccines have not worked to stop this whatsoever.”
# debunked - Friday 3 December, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim is made in an image-based post circulating on Facebook.
# debunked - Monday 29 November, 2021
# Factchecked
# Factchecked
A fake vaccine poster claiming to be authorised by the HSE has proved to be fake.
# debunked - Wednesday 17 November, 2021
# Factcheck
The photo was shared widely online as proof that electric buses at COP26 were not reliable. However, the bus in the photograph is actually a hydrogen fuel bus and was never used in Glasgow, writes Brianna Parkins
# debunked - Tuesday 16 November, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim has been doing the rounds on social media in recent weeks.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - Wednesday 29 September, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Doctors say the claim is an urban legend.
# debunked - Friday 17 September, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
A medical law expert has cast a withering eye on a document that’s circulating online.
# debunked - Tuesday 14 September, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A photo shared on Facebook claimed that QR scanners would be used to ask for proof of vaccination.
# debunked - Monday 30 August, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Claims about vaccines containing the chemical have circulated in recent months.
# debunked - Friday 27 August, 2021
# Covid19
# Covid19
This name has been used for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine since December last year.
# debunked - Thursday 26 August, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
There has been some confusion after an FDA document was misread by some people.
# debunked - Tuesday 24 August, 2021
# Nicole Cahill
# Nicole Cahill
The claim has been shared widely online.
# debunked - Monday 23 August, 2021
# Factcheck
The world's top health agencies say there is still insufficient evidence this medication is effective against Covid, Michelle Hennessy reports. Studies are ongoing, with 5,000 volunteers recruited recently for an Oxford University trial.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - Friday 13 August, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim has been labelled “entirely spurious” by the Clinical Lead of the hospital’s Emergency Department.
# debunked - Wednesday 11 August, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The list of Covid variant ‘launch dates’ contained in the Instagram post is also inaccurate.
# debunked - Tuesday 10 August, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Some social media users suggested that the satirical post was legitimate.
# debunked - Tuesday 3 August, 2021
# France
# France
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from France in 2018 as a recent anti-restrictions protest.
# debunked - Thursday 22 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Legal experts said the claim is a complete misrepresentation of the law.
# debunked - Saturday 17 July, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
An “error” led to around 160 students receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine,.
# debunked - Friday 16 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim has circulated widely on social media in recent weeks.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - Saturday 10 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claim has been shared on Facebook.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - Sunday 4 July, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Claims which rely on the EudraVigilance and VAERS databases are often misleading.
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