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# debunked

All time
That photo of Matt Hancock holding a bad pint of Guinness is fake
1 May 2021
100k
31
FactCheck: Yes, Black people are disproportionately affected by fatal US police shootings
30 Apr 2021
17.7k
Debunked: Misleading post gives inaccurate reflection of Ireland's excess mortality during Covid-19 pandemic
28 Apr 2021
23.4k
Debunked: No, Travellers were not protesting outside a Dublin Pfizer plant for access to the Covid-19 vaccine
13 Apr 2021
41.4k
FactCheck: No, the Tánaiste did not say lockdown would continue 'indefinitely'
25 Mar 2021
25.1k
Factfind: Has Ireland experienced 'excess mortality' since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic?
12 Mar 2021
72.1k
Debunked: No, all Direct Provision residents at Mosney are not receiving vaccine ahead of priority schedule
11 Mar 2021
12.7k
Court hears man charged with firework offence at Dublin protest is currently on the PUP
3 Mar 2021
7.2k
FactCheck: Misleading Covid-19 claims in a leaflet made by three political parties
2 Mar 2021
76.6k
Debunked: No, People Before Profit has not organised a 'pro-lockdown' rally
26 Feb 2021
13.9k
FactFind: What are Covid-19 vaccines effective at preventing?
24 Feb 2021
20.1k
FactCheck: No, this photo of a massive crowd in Bucharest does not show a protest against Covid-19 restrictions
24 Feb 2021
32.1k
FactCheck: Covid-19 claims shared on a LED display driven around a number of locations in Ireland are false
19 Feb 2021
91.5k
Debunked: No, an FOI request did not show that RTÉ 'took orders' from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
14 Feb 2021
35.8k
Debunked: Yes, the virus that causes Covid-19 has been isolated and photographed
9 Feb 2021
43.1k
Debunked: No, there wasn't a media blackout on Simon Coveney's official visit to Turkey last month
5 Feb 2021
24.1k
Debunked: No, a Wexford doctor's death was not related to the Covid-19 vaccine
26 Jan 2021
36.9k
FactCheck: No, the lack of hospitalisations from flu is not because cases are mistakenly being diagnosed as Covid-19
23 Jan 2021
48.1k
Debunked: A comparison of deaths between January and October 2020 and other years is misleading
14 Jan 2021
65.0k
Debunked: Several claims about Covid-19 in a video featuring Dolores Cahill are false or misleading
9 Jan 2021
363k
FactCheck: No, Pfizer did not say unprotected sex should be avoided after the vaccine because of risk from 'genetic manipulation'
8 Jan 2021
83.9k
Debunked: No, this is not a photo of a man attacked by George Nkencho
4 Jan 2021
7.2k
FactCheck: No, George Nkencho was not a convicted criminal out on bail for attacking his girlfriend
4 Jan 2021
39.4k
Debunked: No, a Freedom of Information request to the HSE did not prove that Covid-19 does not exist
29 Dec 2020
48.3k
Debunked: No, a former Pfizer employee was not correct to say there is 'no need for vaccines'
28 Dec 2020
260k
Debunked: No, this US nurse who fainted after her Covid-19 vaccine has not died
23 Dec 2020
92.3k
Debunked: No, this photo does not show Paris 'in full out war' over Covid-19 restrictions
23 Dec 2020
2.5k
FactCheck: No, a claim by an Irish doctor that PCR tests have a 97% false positive rate is not true
22 Dec 2020
59.0k
How anti-vaccine misinformation took aim at the Toy Show - and what can be done about it
21 Dec 2020
46.2k
104
FactCheck: Are RNA Covid-19 vaccines actually responsible for 'genetic manipulation'?
11 Dec 2020
25.8k
Debunked: No, Pfizer's head of research did not say the Covid vaccine is 'female sterilisation'
10 Dec 2020
56.0k
FactCheck: No, the WHO's Dr Mike Ryan didn't say that Covid-19 is 'no more dangerous' than the flu
26 Nov 2020
29.5k
14
Debunked: No, you won't need a 'vaccination passport' to receive social welfare
23 Nov 2020
26.0k
FactCheck: Yes, the children's flu vaccine is authorised for use in Ireland
20 Nov 2020
10.1k
FactCheck: No, a German city has not ruled that compulsory mask-wearing is illegal
19 Nov 2020
22.7k
Debunked: No, the HSE hasn't said its coronavirus testing method is useless
15 Nov 2020
23.3k
Debunked: No, a Fine Gael Senator is not being paid €150,000 to sit on the board of Pieta House
13 Nov 2020
7.0k
2
Debunked: No, the Army is not going to chip children in schools so they can monitor them
12 Nov 2020
16.6k
1
Debunked: No, face masks 'sprayed with Teflon' are not causing flu-like symptoms
11 Nov 2020
17.4k
15
FactCheck: Claim made in full-page Irish Times ad about Covid-19 deaths is false
15 Oct 2020
206k
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