# 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.
# debunked - Saturday 26 June, 2021
# Debunk
# Debunk
A social media claim is wrongly saying that sunglasses are harmful.
# debunked - Saturday 19 June, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
A leaflet by Anti-Corruption Ireland contains a list of false statements about masks and their effectiveness.
# debunked - Friday 18 June, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
A video shared online claimed that because antibodies produced as a result of the vaccine are in the blood, they don’t protect against Covid infection. This is false.
# debunked - 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.
# debunked - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Mortality Misinfo
Anti-lockdown accounts on social media often leave out important context or misconstrue data to argue that the pandemic is not real. A disinformation professor at DCU says online misinformation often draws on "a grain of truth" - and then distorts it. Lauren Boland breaks down the official statistics and how you can find the facts.
# debunked - Sunday 30 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Mike Yeadon is regularly cited by anti-lockdown groups.
# debunked - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
Different versions of the message have appeared in recent days.
# debunked - Friday 21 May, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claims about insurance cover were included in a video on Dolores Cahill’s Facebook page.
# debunked - Saturday 15 May, 2021
# Covid19 Facts
# Covid19 Facts
All four vaccines approved for use in Ireland have been tested on animals as well as humans.
# debunked - Friday 14 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
The claims have been made in recent weeks.
# debunked - Saturday 8 May, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
A recent article in the Westmeath Topic, which was reshared by other users on social media, suggested that this information is being hidden.
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The platform is being used to spread false information about Covid-19 in novel ways,.
# debunked - Friday 7 May, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The misleading article was widely shared on social media before it was removed by Gript.
# debunked - Saturday 1 May, 2021
# Debunked
# Debunked
He wasn’t even drinking Guinness.
# debunked - Friday 30 April, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Black people are fatally shot by US police at a higher rate than white people relative to their proportion of the population.
# debunked - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Covid-19 Facts
# Covid-19 Facts
The post has been seen more than 20,000 times on Facebook.
# debunked - Tuesday 13 April, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The claim was circulated on WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook this week.
# debunked - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Zero Covid
# Zero Covid
Leo Varadkar was talking about the Zero Covid strategy and mandatory hotel quarantine.
# debunked - Friday 12 March, 2021
# Factfind
# Factfind
Several posts on social media have tried to play down the need for lockdowns by pointing to excess deaths.
# debunked - Thursday 11 March, 2021
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The HSE is still working through the first four cohorts in the sequencing list.
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