Tuesday 5 July, 2022
The claim was made by Cian O’Callaghan last week.
It might be painful but there is no evidence to support the claim.
The UN Refugee Agency said it never issued such a statement and it warned of the damage disinformation can do.
However, a local priest says an incident is being investigated by Church authorities.
Fake footage from the game Arma 3 has been doing the rounds.
Is the Rice Krispie mascot “Pop” is now a trans woman?
The Mail on Sunday made the claim yesterday.
The claim has been made by government ministers and the HSE itself.
Will we ever be free of bad information or do we simply learn coping strategies to keep up the fight?
‘Prebunking’ involves innoculating people with weaker doses of misinformation in a safe space in order to strenghten their ability to spot it in the wild.
Social media posts claim ‘football practice is off the schedule’ as one of Ukraine’s most successful teams kits out in army combats to join the mililtary.
Is it even winnable at all? Or is false information just a fact of life now?
These are reactions from another scandal-making moment at the 2017 Oscars where the wrong winner was announced.
An argument about the definition of this tax broke out last week as the government moved to address rising fuel costs.
Academics, technology and fact-checking experts are designing “whole-society” response to disinformation campaigns.
These are old photos of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist.
The photos widely shared on Facebook and Twitter are old and out of context.
Reports of the ‘ace’ fighter pilot protecting the skies of Kyiv gave hope to Ukrainian resistance but is footage on social media real?
The actress did miss out on the part, but this photo isn’t as claimed
Applegreen sells a ‘carbon neutral’ driving option at pumps – how does that work?
Disinformation is significant aspect of the crisis unfolding in eastern Europe.
See how we’re fighting misinformation and disinformation every month.
In the first 14 hours of the invasion fact-checkers had already found 34 pieces of disinformation about the conflict.
A now suspended account on Twitter made the claim, but does it have any truth to it?
DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson has made the claim multiple times in recent weeks.
Peter Burke made the claim on RTÉ radio.
An image on social media purports to show proof of a flat Earth.
The CDC is the national public health agency in the United States.
Masks, mandates, and war crimes are not mentioned in the Nuremburg Code.
We test claims from Irish website The Liberal that a study implies ‘vaccines were never required to begin with’.
Social media claims this photo shows the cap was on the needle, meaning the injection didn’t happen.
The open letter is addressed to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
The open letter is addressed to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki from over 80 fact-checking organisations around the world.
Is there evidence that alcohol users turn to drugs as a result of the policy?
A video viewed thousands of times on an Irish Facebook page contains incorrect information about the effectiveness of masks.
