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This week
13th April 2025 - 17th April 2025
Debunked: A grant doesn't show 'Phone shops, Turkish barbers & vape shops' are funded by taxes
Last week
6th April 2025 - 12th April 2025
Debunked: A new conspiracy theory claims 14 countries signed a treaty to ban natural conception
Debunked: Viral image contains false claim that UK's Southport killer was an 'Islamic migrant'
This month
April 2025
Debunked: Brennans didn't recently apply for Halal certification (but Muslims can eat it anyway)
Last month
March 2025
FactCheck: Is the Irish government paying for Ukrainians to repair their cars?
FactCheck: Will the MetroLink cost more than €23 billion?
Debunked: Data contradicts McGregor’s White House claim that Irish are a minority in some towns
‘Disinformation will be back’ warns expert as Meta rolls out Community Notes
Debunked: Fake headline claims Trump granted the Burke family asylum over religious persecution
Debunked: Project Ireland 2040 isn't a plan 'to flood the country with nearly 2m extra people’
Debunked: Enoch Burke payment claim that was shared by Musk is filled with misinformation
Debunked: Irish Facebook groups inundated with housing scams
Debunked: Video of attack on jogger ‘in Ireland’ was actually recorded more than 9,000km away
Debunked: No evidence Bill Gates funded project to make bird flu transmissible to humans
February
February 2025
Debunked: Years-old video used to falsely claim Ireland is establishing a ‘National Hijab Day’
Explainer: Here's why elections have not been held in Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion
Debunked: Old reports circulating about plans for a huge mosque in Dublin that never went ahead
Debunked: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy has a 57% approval rating, not 4% as Trump said
Debunked: No, US Vice-President JD Vance did not make a security conference chairman cry on stage
Debunked: A photo of a split bride/groom costume isn't an Irish person who ‘married themself’
January
January 2025
Debunked: The Status Red warning during Storm Éowyn was not a 'climate lockdown'
Debunked: ‘HIV-infected Green Monkey DNA’ has not been found in Covid-19 vaccines
Debunked: Elon Musk misleadingly suggests other celebrities made controversial 'Nazi' gesture
Will your car insurance be cancelled if you drive during a Red warning? Insurers say no
Debunked: Fake missing child posts shared widely in Limerick and Roscommon Facebook groups
Debunked: Photo of Jimmy Saville with a child does not show a young Keir Starmer
Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats
Debunked: Enoch Burke isn't forced to stand outside a school for refusing 'transgender ideology'
Debunked: Woman wrongly accused of Satanism for wearing St Brigid's cross at LA fires press event
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?
Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims
At least 10 dead and over 30 injured after vehicle driven into crowd in New Orleans
Last year
2024
Debunked: No evidence that DHL scam using ‘sorry we missed you’ notes is operating in Ireland
Debunked: Image of Bono and Bob Geldof holding Israeli flags is AI-generated
Debunked: Asylum seekers are not suspects for bloody Mullingar incident, as some posts claim
Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American
Debunked: A failed election candidate was jailed, but not for uncovering election tampering
Debunked: False claims the World Health Organisation will undo human rights have spread online
Debunked: Baseless claims about a cow feed supplement used in attempts to boycott milk