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2023
Debunked: Safety sheet used to show an edible coating is risky is actually for a cleaning fluid
'They're preparing us for something': Irish conspiracy groups latch onto UK's public alert test
Debunked: No, Scotland is not reducing motorway speed limits to 30mph due to climate change
FactCheck: Does Ireland collect more corporate tax per person than almost any other EU country?
Debunked: An Irish news headline about 'pregnant men at risk from climate change' is fake
Debunked: Claims of Dungarvan attacks by foreign nationals are baseless, according to Gardaí
Debunked: No, vaccinated people are not more likely to have heart problems from being jabbed
Debunked: Video of fatal explosion used to falsely claim that electric cars are dangerous
Debunked: Video of bus driver collapsing predates Covid-19 and doesn't show vaccine effects
Debunked: Recent studies indicate masks can be effective at preventing the spread of disease
Debunked: Leo Varadkar did not say that 'biological males' shouldn't be put in female prisons
FactCheck: The ‘15-minute city’ concept does not involve detaining or punishing people
FactFind: Is the EU 'forcing' people to eat 'unhealthy' insects without their knowledge?
Debunked: Deceptive leaflet distributed in Dublin telling ‘girls to stay indoors’ is a hoax
Debunked: Buses in Santry were not a 'migrant convoy', but were dropping children to athletics
FactFind: Does a new scientific review show masks are useless at stopping disease?
Debunked: Video of fire does not show building contracted to house asylum seekers
Explainer: What is the difference between ‘economic migrants’, ‘refugees’ and 'asylum-seekers'?
Debunked: No, 'immigrants’ are not suspects in a Finglas assault case
Debunked: No, ‘100,000 unvetted foreign nationals’ did not receive free accommodation in a year
Debunked: London Police are not criminally investigating COVID-19 vaccines
FactCheck: Did the state build more social housing in 2022 than ever before, as Taoiseach claimed?
FactCheck: The European Commission doesn't use the term ‘minor-attracted person’ instead of 'paedophile'
Debunked: Misleading graph used to argue that non-vaccinated people achieved ‘Zero Covid’
Debunked: No evidence Ballaghaderreen doctors ‘only see Syrians and Ukrainians’ on Mondays
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Debunked: Self-proclaimed ‘inventor’ of mRNA vaccines makes nonsense claims about spike proteins
FactCheck newsletter: Covid, climate change and Ukraine dominated disinformation narratives in 2022
FactCheck: The recent cold spell is not evidence against climate change
Debunked: Call to take mRNA vaccines off the market relies on dodgy death data
Debunked: No evidence that a rise in serious Strep A cases is caused by Covid or flu vaccines
Debunked: Conspiracy theory 'documentary' repeats long-disproven claims about Covid vaccines
Debunked: Asylum seekers, not economic migrants, are being housed at the East Wall building
Debunked: There isn't a secret UN army in Louth; the refugees in Carlingford are from Ukraine
Debunk: Turf is not an ‘agricultural crop’; burning it is polluting and unhealthy
FactCheck: Do emissions from making electric cars mean they are not ‘green’?
FactCheck: Is the State the ‘biggest player in housing’?
FactCheck: Iranian protesters have been arrested & killed, but 15,000 aren't sentenced to death
Debunk: No, it isn’t true that vaccines have little effect on COVID-19 transmission
Debunk: No, these maps don't show large areas of Irish cities that 'could be underwater’ by 2050
Government still €2bn behind annual expenditure target for housing as end of year approaches