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2023
Debunked: Dublin City Council did not rename 'Winter Lights' to avoid mentioning Christmas
23 Dec 2023
21.0k
Debunked: No evidence of Graham Linehan’s claims about crowdfunding and ‘top surgery’
20 Dec 2023
30.0k
Debunked: Video clip showing car theft in UK shared online with claims it was filmed in Ireland
15 Dec 2023
416
Debunked: Picture of Irish homeless woman and children is an AI-generated image
14 Dec 2023
38.0k
Debunked: Currys say ‘mystery box’ posts on social media are a scam
12 Dec 2023
998
Debunked: Photo of a child actor is not proof that Palestinians are faking casualties
8 Dec 2023
396
Debunked: Gardaí have not installed 'watch towers' on O'Connell Street after riots in Dublin
29 Nov 2023
17.5k
Debunked: Old footage from Egypt shared with false claims it shows Israel storming Gaza hospital
29 Nov 2023
318
FactCheck: False claims the army was deployed during Dublin City riots seen millions of times
27 Nov 2023
699
Dublin riots: How a mob in the capital turned to looting, arson and calls to kill
Dublin city centre was largely shut down last night as rioters attacked gardaí, looted shops and set vehicles on fire.
What exactly happened in Dublin city and how did the situation escalate so quickly?
To understand that, we need to explore what has been happening online in terms of anti-immigration rhetoric
As is often the case with a breaking news story, many rumours gained traction yesterday before the truth had time to emerge
24 Nov 2023
73.3k
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As it happened: Increased Garda presence in Dublin, Opposition declare no confidence in Commissioner
24 Nov 2023
Schools close early and clinics cancelled at Temple Street amid fears of unrest in central Dublin
24 Nov 2023
Aoife Barry: I didn’t recognise the Dublin I witnessed yesterday - it was terrifying
24 Nov 2023
Debunked: Fake News site spreads baseless claim of a second stabbing at a school in Ballymun
24 Nov 2023
23.2k
Major analysis shows how Irish disinformation ecosystem has been 'co-opted by far-right actors'
20 Nov 2023
16.6k
Ireland “a victim of Russian disinformation”, experts on Ukraine war say
17 Nov 2023
12.4k
Anti-immigration groups use Israel-Gaza violence to push antisemitism and Islamophobia online
Updated 15 Nov 2023
7.5k
Debunked: Years-old video of hospital bombing in Syria claimed to show strike on Gaza
9 Nov 2023
8.4k
Debunked: Photo of ‘corpse’ using phone isn't from Gaza; it actually shows a Halloween costume
1 Nov 2023
690
FactCheck: Have 40,000 landlords really left Ireland's rental market in the past five years?
30 Oct 2023
31.6k
Debunked: Scam ads falsely claim that Dublin Airport is clearing out 'lost luggage' for €2
24 Oct 2023
17.2k
FactFind: What exactly do we know - and not know - about the Gaza hospital explosion
20 Oct 2023
14.7k
Debunked: YouTube ads feature Elon Musk in deepfake videos pushing cryptocurrency scams
20 Oct 2023
6.3k
Debunked: A double-decker bus which caught fire in Bradford was not an electric vehicle
17 Oct 2023
7.8k
FactCheck: Misleading claims about sex education found on leaflets about the SPHE curriculum
16 Oct 2023
22.8k
How X, formerly Twitter, is platforming a deluge of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war
12 Oct 2023
16.5k
Debunked: Fake RTÉ posts about Anne Doyle are a hoax to promote a cryptocurrency scheme
12 Oct 2023
5.0k
Debunked: An old image of Leo Varadkar has been altered to promote a climate change conspiracy
11 Oct 2023
468
FactCheck: Is the Government giving landlords twice as much as renters in Budget 2024?
11 Oct 2023
15.6k
FactFind: QAnon website promoted on anti-SPHE leaflets protesting sex ed in Ireland
6 Oct 2023
497
Debunked: Video alleging fraud cites baseless claims about Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s assets
28 Sep 2023
1.1k
Debunked: Australian footage from 2021 used to imply Covid lockdowns are being enforced again
26 Sep 2023
381
Factcheck: MEP Clare Daly ‘mistakenly’ cited wrong fatality figures for Russian invasion of Ukraine
25 Sep 2023
33.7k
Debunked: Fake government letter used to spread rumour of Ukrainians being extradited to fight
14 Sep 2023
8.0k
Debunked: Doctored image of RTÉ headline spread with anti-immigrant messages
14 Sep 2023
493
Debunked: Conspiracy site Infowars used fake claims about Ireland as evidence of 'white genocide'
9 Sep 2023
29.2k
Factcheck: What did an expert on Youth Justice tell the Citizens’ Assembly about drug crime?
7 Sep 2023
7.2k
Debunked: The Canadian government hasn't banned the British outlet GB News
6 Sep 2023
4.9k
FactFind: What are the laws around asylum seekers being able to vote in Irish elections?
2 Sep 2023
18.8k
FactFind: Do more than a thousand people die per year in Ireland due to burning solid fuels?
31 Aug 2023
21.5k
Lasers, ‘magic trees’ and Simpsons predictions: False claims about Maui wildfires spread online
25 Aug 2023
485
Debunked: Irish users among those fooled by AI image of Pope in front of huge crowds
25 Aug 2023
21.7k
Debunked: Government has not forbidden business grants and modular homes for Irish people
23 Aug 2023
4.2k
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