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This week
23rd March 2025 - 29th March 2025
Fianna Fáil seeking to criminalise misleading and deceptive 'deepfakes'
FactCheck: Will the MetroLink cost more than €23 billion?
Banks must take action and better protect customers against scams under new rules
Last week
16th March 2025 - 29th March 2025
‘Disinformation will be back’ warns expert as Meta rolls out Community Notes
Last month
March 2025
Debunked: Enoch Burke payment claim that was shared by Musk is filled with misinformation
Debunked: Irish Facebook groups inundated with housing scams
This year
2025
'The same feeling as gambling': Loot boxes are pulling young gamers into the world of betting
Apple is releasing a new 'affordable' phone (for €729) - how does it compare to other iPhones?
Zuckerberg's Meta under Trump: 'As an American, my only option is to quit its platforms'
Elizabeth Rymut
Spotify has made a profit for the first time
Have you received a scam call or text recently?
Debunked: Elon Musk misleadingly suggests other celebrities made controversial 'Nazi' gesture
Meta showed nearly 10,000 ads for deepfake clothes 'erasing' app to Irish users since December
'Deep concerns' over AI 'undress' apps being advertised on Irish social media
So-called ‘nudify’ apps allow users to create deepfake naked images of any woman.
Meta's scrapping of fact-checking in the US has emboldened disinformers; now the EU is on alert
Debunked: The Hollywood sign still stands, despite AI-generated images of it burning
FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?
The truth about Meta’s broadside against fact-checkers
Susan Daly
Split views over whether to move 'hugely important' Energy brief to Dept of Enterprise
Meanwhile Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael look likely to swap the Health and Justice ministries.
This low-cost camera system detects cars breaking red-lights and sends details to gardaí
Three students came up with the idea after seeing drivers run red lights on their way to school.
Vape safety and testing big Irish heads: What to expect at this year's Young Scientist
Meta says it is killing off its third-party fact-checking programme 'starting in the US'
Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims
Elections, Eurovision and Fine Gael departures: The most read articles on The Journal in 2024
A look at the top 20 stories on TheJournal.ie last year.
Last year
2024
Ryanair boss 'regrets' charging customers €500 for one-way ticket from London to Dublin
Debunked: Image of Bono and Bob Geldof holding Israeli flags is AI-generated
Do you use TikTok?
Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American
Debunked: Baseless claims about a cow feed supplement used in attempts to boycott milk
Debunked: Fake AI slop images of old Ireland are being used to push anti-immigrant narratives
Do you play video games?
Regulator warns consumers not to buy Ozempic online as over 430 websites shut down this year
World needs global regulation to manage Artificial Intelligence spread, French expert says
Musk's SpaceX set to launch world's most-powerful rocket again, Trump will be there to watch
Debunked: Weather manipulation claims are taking hold in Ireland despite no evidence support them
Do you use X?
Have you ever bought cryptocurrency?
Floods in Valencia prompt conspiracy theories on weather weapons, Israel, migrants, and Netflix
Fixed customer price will not be set for 200 new Dublin EV chargers to be installed next year
An electric vehicle advocacy group has called for prices to be set as many will be reliant on the infrastructure.