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Last year
2024
Debunked: A hoax image posted online suggests Sinn Féin and PBP have a joint immigration policy
Debunked: Scam ads featuring images of Dara Ó Briain and Pat Kenny appear on Facebook
Debunked: No evidence for two attempted child abductions in Cork despite online rumours
Debunked: A doctored image falsely claims to show Kamala Harris posing with Sean 'Diddy' Combs
Debunked: The WHO can't enforce 'mandatory vaccines' under new International Health Regulations
Debunked: Clip of Buzz Aldrin does not show him saying the moon landings were faked
Debunked: Hoax Facebook ads containing claims about Fintan O’Toole bring users to a malicious link
Debunked: Hoax claim suggests leaflets are telling Irish children to make friends with strangers
Debunked: Claim that PCR tests are ‘97% inaccurate' is false (and old)
Debunked: False claims allege Kamala Harris paralysed a child and dressed in Communist attire
Debunked: Fake Sinn Féin ads shared online suggest party is selling 'burkas' featuring its logo
Debunked: Videos showing a man smashing up an airport with a hammer were not filmed in Dublin
Debunked: Deepfake video of Simon Harris 'congratulating' anti-immigrant groups shared online
Debunked: Image of fake RTÉ article claiming asylum seekers would stay at children's hospital
Debunked: Claims water would ‘be turned off in Dublin for two days’ did not materialise
Debunked: The World Health Organization has not ordered ‘mega lockdowns’ for Mpox
Debunked: No evidence of attempted child abduction claims in Dundalk
Debunked: Irish groups spread baseless claim that Southport stabbing attacker was asylum seeker
'Unlikely to survive the night': False rumours about Joe Biden's demise are going viral online
Debunked: Ursula von der Leyen's husband is not the director of a company owned by Pfizer
Debunked: Bus company refutes claims it wouldn't drive 150 asylum seekers into Coolock site
Debunked: A comparison of US temperatures in May 1896 and May 2024 is misleading
Debunked: Visiting restrictions at Tallaght Hospital are due to viruses, despite conspiracy theories
Debunked: Why terms like 'illegals' and 'people trafficking' mischaracterise the asylum system
Debunked: A US appeals court did not rule that mRNA shots are not really 'vaccines'
Debunked: Fabricated quotes and made-up commentators feature in 'vote-rigging' news story
Debunked: High Court did not rule that ‘illegal immigrants should be paid €318 per week’
Debunked: Image of burning house in rural Ireland is AI-generated and not a real arson attack
Debunked: Man charged with alleged knife offences in Dublin was Irish, not a foreign national
Debunked: One political party's false election claims on immigration, neutrality and NATO
A leaflet by Ireland First contains a number of inaccuracies.
Debunked: Hoax claim that wife of man who shot Slovakia PM Robert Fico is a Ukrainian refugee
Debunked: The number of 'illegally present immigrants' in Ireland last year was not 10 times the EU average
Debunked: Police at Newtownmountkennedy clashes were Gardaí, not PSNI officers
Debunked: Deepfaked Michael O’Leary appears in scam ad pushing financial platform ‘Ryan Chain’
Debunked: Image of Garda standoff shared after Newtownmountkennedy protests is AI-generated
Debunked: Posts ‘as Gaeilge’ among more than 100 scam ads featuring presenter Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
Debunked: Nazis falsely identified as members of Ursula von der Leyen’s family
Debunked: No, the European Union has not told Ireland to delay a general election
Debunked: Posts advertising free online further education certificate courses are a scam
Debunked: Fake frame from Simpsons episode used to say show predicted Baltimore bridge disaster