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Explainer: Here's why elections have not been held in Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion

21 Feb

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Debunked: Old reports circulating about plans for a huge mosque in Dublin that never went ahead

20 Feb

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Debunked: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy has a 57% approval rating, not 4% as Trump said

19 Feb

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Debunked: No, US Vice-President JD Vance did not make a security conference chairman cry on stage

19 Feb

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How far-right agitators exploited an information vacuum after the Stoneybatter attack

10 Feb

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Debunked: Doctors and nurses who gave the Covid-19 vaccines are not being tried for war crimes

4 Feb

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Debunked: A photo of a split bride/groom costume isn't an Irish person who ‘married themself’

4 Feb

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Debunked: The Status Red warning during Storm Éowyn was not a 'climate lockdown'

30 Jan

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Debunked: ‘HIV-infected Green Monkey DNA’ has not been found in Covid-19 vaccines

28 Jan

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Debunked: Elon Musk misleadingly suggests other celebrities made controversial 'Nazi' gesture

23 Jan

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Will your car insurance be cancelled if you drive during a Red warning? Insurers say no

23 Jan

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Debunked: Fake missing child posts shared widely in Limerick and Roscommon Facebook groups

22 Jan

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Debunked: Photo of Jimmy Saville with a child does not show a young Keir Starmer

22 Jan

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Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats

21 Jan

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Debunked: Enoch Burke isn't forced to stand outside a school for refusing 'transgender ideology'

16 Jan

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Debunked: Woman wrongly accused of Satanism for wearing St Brigid's cross at LA fires press event

14 Jan

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Debunked: The Hollywood sign still stands, despite AI-generated images of it burning

10 Jan

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FactCheck: What do we know about the scale of child sex exploitation by gangs in the UK?

10 Jan

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FactCheck: Do immigrants get shorter sentences than Irish citizens?

10 Jan

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The truth about Meta’s broadside against fact-checkers

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Debunked: Man arrested at Connolly Station was Irish and not a foreign national

9 Jan

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Why has Elon Musk taken aim at both Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage over a UK sex abuse scandal?

Intervening in politics outside the United States and his native South Africa is not a new habit for Musk.

Musk has spent the last week or so levelling attacks against a number of British political figures.

Yesterday, Musk publicly withdrew support for the leader of the far-right Reform UK party, Nigel Farage.

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7 Jan

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Debunked: Tommy Robinson was jailed for lying, not ‘for telling the truth’ as Elon Musk claims

3 Jan

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Debunked: No, Pope Francis didn’t open spiritual portals to other dimensions over Christmas

The symbolic act of opening Holy Doors for the Church’s Jubilee Year was drastically misrepresented by some online.

2 Jan

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Debunked: No evidence that DHL scam using ‘sorry we missed you’ notes is operating in Ireland

27 Dec 2024

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Debunked: Image of Bono and Bob Geldof holding Israeli flags is AI-generated

19 Dec 2024

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FactCheck: False claims about Ireland's position on Gaza ramp up after embassy closure

19 Dec 2024

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Debunked: Asylum seekers are not suspects for bloody Mullingar incident, as some posts claim

18 Dec 2024

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Debunked: Pride flags will not be banned at next year's Fifa Club World Cup

17 Dec 2024

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Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American

13 Dec 2024

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Debunked: A failed election candidate was jailed, but not for uncovering election tampering

13 Dec 2024

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Debunked: False claims the World Health Organisation will undo human rights have spread online

11 Dec 2024

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Why is Israel accusing Amnesty International of inventing its own definition of genocide?

11 Dec 2024

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Debunked: Baseless claims about a cow feed supplement used in attempts to boycott milk

6 Dec 2024

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Debunked: Fake AI slop images of old Ireland are being used to push anti-immigrant narratives

5 Dec 2024

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The far-right failed in the general election - but reports of their death have been exaggerated

4 Dec 2024

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Disappointed by failed campaigns, far-right candidates turn to claims of election rigging

2 Dec 2024

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Debunked: Images of men at Dublin Airport show EU seasonal workers, not an ‘invasion’

29 Nov 2024

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Debunked: CCTV footage shared online does not show Nikita Hand on night of sexual assault

29 Nov 2024

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FactCheck: Are a third of hotels and B&Bs outside the M50 used to house asylum seekers?

28 Nov 2024

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