Saturday 27 February, 2021
A false flyer advertising a pro-lockdown rally has been incorrectly attributed to People Before Profit and Le Chéile.
A social media post has drawn incorrect conclusions to suggest that Covid-19 vaccines are ineffective.
Social media posts have falsely described a photo from Romania in 2017 as a recent anti-restrictions protest.
Messages flashed on an LED display beside roads are spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
A post on Facebook suggests that the broadcaster received money from a number of international groups.
A post on Instagram claims that SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated.
It has been claimed that the media was told not to cover the minister’s trip last month.
Dr Keshav Sharma died on 11 January.
The claim goes against what medical and scientific experts have observed in Ireland and other countries around the world.
The post incorrectly compares CSO data for ten months in 2020 with previous years.
The video was posted online before Christmas and now has more than 1 million views.
A false claim on social media suggests that a Pfizer document said vaccine recipients should not have unprotected sex for 28 days after receiving their second dose.
An image being shared on social media is actually of an Everton football fan attacked in 2019.
A claim on social media says that George Nkencho had 32 convictions, but this is false.
The claim originated in a series of posts by Anti-Corruption Ireland last week.
Quotes attributed to Dr Mike Yeadon are inaccurate.
The nurse has said her fainting was not linked to the vaccine, but to a health condition she has.
The photo was taken in 2018 when France won the World Cup.
The video, which has attracted hundreds of shares and likes on Facebook, makes a number of claims about PCR testing.
Ireland is seeing a lot of misinformation about vaccines right now – and there’s no sign of it stopping.
A tweet going viral raises the spectre of some vaccines causing lasting genetic change to our cells, but this is untrue.
Social media posts making the claim have been shared thousands of times in recent days.
A number of different posts on Facebook with the same text have claimed that the assertion was made at a WHO briefing.
The Department of Social Protection has confirmed that this is incorrect.
Despite what the misleading claim says, the Fluenz Tetra vaccine has been authorised since 2013.
Guidance on mask-wearing in the German city of Düsseldorf has recently been updated, but the requirement to wear a mask has not been banned as claims suggest.
The PCR test is globally recognised as the gold standard method for detecting the coronavirus.
None of the members of the board of Pieta House are paid for their work.
The incorrect claim is being widely shared on social media.
This claim has been shared widely on Facebook recently.
The ad calls for an alternative approach to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.
The leaflet was distributed in the name of Anti-Corruption Ireland, an anti-government group.
The video on Twitter and Facebook accused Sinn Féin of being “two-faced and hypocritical”. But were the claims in it correct?
The photo has been shared on social media in recent days – but it was actually taken in England five years ago.
Several claims online say the store is to stop retail sales from next week.
The Covid-19 swab is not powerful enough to break through bone, a professor said.
The fake advertisement was shared on social media following protests in Dublin at the weekend.
It’s been claimed that the World Bank was recording exports of Covid-19 tests up to three years ago.
In the video, Ben Gilroy makes a number of false and misleading claims about coronavirus and suicide in Ireland.
The claim has spread widely on Facebook and Twitter and has caused significant distress.
