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January
January 2025
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
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
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: Pride flags will not be banned at next year's Fifa Club World Cup
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
Debunked: Fake AI slop images of old Ireland are being used to push anti-immigrant narratives
Disappointed by failed campaigns, far-right candidates turn to claims of election rigging
Debunked: Images of men at Dublin Airport show EU seasonal workers, not an ‘invasion’
Debunked: CCTV footage shared online does not show Nikita Hand on night of sexual assault
FactCheck: Image of Simon Harris poster saying 'more waste, it wasn't me' has been doctored
Debunked: An image said to show 'unvetted men in Rosslare' was taken in England
Debunked: Man filmed waving Palestinian flag was a Peaky Blinders fan, not actor Cillian Murphy
Debunked: Years-old headline used to suggest Taoiseach wants to bar unvaccinated kids from school
FactCheck: Has the carbon tax led to a reduction in Ireland's emissions?
Mary Lou McDonald said this week that the tax has NOT led to a reduction.
FactCheck: An image of a rough sleeper beside a Fine Gael election poster has been doctored
Debunked: Image of a goaty statue in the Vatican is AI-generated, not proof of devil worship
Floods in Valencia prompt conspiracy theories on weather weapons, Israel, migrants, and Netflix
Debunked: Photo of Leonardo DiCaprio’s niece on yacht altered to look like Greta Thunberg
Debunked: Most prisoners in Ireland are Irish, not foreign nationals as some claim
Debunked: Photo of Obama’s visit to Ireland falsely said to show controversial NYC Trump rally
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Debunked: Israeli forces did not destroy a base used by Irish peacekeepers in southern Lebanon
Debunked: Claims about Enoch Burke shared in multiple languages as 'misinformation chain mail'
How a 'missing person' scam is luring Irish social media users using old photos of real children
A photo of an American child who was attacked by dogs was claimed to show a child found in Ireland.
Debunked: No, 800 Ukrainian refugees have not applied for asylum in Ireland since August
FactCheck: Oat milk is set to be brought under VAT laws - but it isn't about to get more expensive
Debunked: Irish peacekeepers working for UNIFIL were not fired on by Israeli forces in Lebanon
Debunked: Anti-migrant groups share hoax images of Sinn Féin TDs and 'refugees welcome' slogans
Debunked: Fake news story claims Irish government will arrest those who refuse vaccines in future
Debunked: Kamala Harris didn't make an ad about a woman regretting not having an abortion
FactCheck: Why are so many people presenting as homeless in Dublin?