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2022
FactCheck: Did the EU ban crown symbols from appearing on pint glasses in the UK?
The Mail on Sunday made the claim yesterday.
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May 30th 2022, 4:40 PM
FactCheck: Is 10% of Ireland's healthcare budget spent on diabetes?
The claim has been made by government ministers and the HSE itself.
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May 21st 2022, 8:00 AM
FactFind: Will planned turf regulations reduce air pollution?
Turf and other solid fuels contribute to air pollution – which can have damaging health effects.
'How many deaths should we tolerate?': Eamon Ryan compares turf plans to the smoking ban
Govt told to 'go back to the bog' as Taoiseach pledges 'no ban on use of turf this year'
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May 6th 2022, 12:05 AM
The war on misinformation: What counts as a win?
Will we ever be free of bad information or do we simply learn coping strategies to keep up the fight?
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May 1st 2022, 7:00 PM
Can people be 'inoculated' against false news?
‘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.
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May 1st 2022, 8:00 AM
FactCheck: Is this a photo of Dynamo Kyiv players armed in military gear?
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.
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Apr 14th 2022, 10:00 PM
Are we winning the fight against misinformation?
Is it even winnable at all? Or is false information just a fact of life now?
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Apr 6th 2022, 8:00 AM
Debunked: These are not celebrity reactions to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
These are reactions from another scandal-making moment at the 2017 Oscars where the wrong winner was announced.
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Mar 28th 2022, 6:31 PM
How Russia is using fake fact-checks to spread disinformation about Ukraine
One of the tools used against false news online is being weaponised to spread the very thing it was designed to fight against.
Russian website are increasingly using the fact-check and debunk format to sow doubt about what's happening in Ukraine, Brianna Parkins writes.
Social media feeds have recently featured red stamps declaring things as 'fake' that are actually real.
Experts suggest that traditional fact-check formats will have to adapt to combat the problem.
The Journal FactCheck joins Irish alliance to detect and respond to disinformation
Disinformation, Ukraine and the war of words on social media
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Mar 28th 2022, 12:05 AM
FactFind: Is the carbon tax on home heating oil an excise duty - and could it be cut?
An argument about the definition of this tax broke out last week as the government moved to address rising fuel costs.
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Mar 18th 2022, 12:05 AM
The Journal FactCheck joins Irish alliance to detect and respond to disinformation
Academics, technology and fact-checking experts are designing “whole-society” response to disinformation campaigns.
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Mar 15th 2022, 11:53 AM
Debunked: No, this is not an 8-year-old Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier.
These are old photos of Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian activist.
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Mar 9th 2022, 10:34 AM
Debunked: No, these are not photos of the President and First Lady of Ukraine fighting on the front line
The photos widely shared on Facebook and Twitter are old and out of context.
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Mar 4th 2022, 9:00 PM
FactCheck: Is this footage of the famed Ghost of Kyiv?
Reports of the ‘ace’ fighter pilot protecting the skies of Kyiv gave hope to Ukrainian resistance but is footage on social media real?
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Mar 2nd 2022, 7:00 PM
Debunk: No, this isn't a photo of Meryl Streep after a director said she was 'too ugly' for a role
The actress did miss out on the part, but this photo isn’t as claimed
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Mar 2nd 2022, 3:49 PM
FactFind: How can petrol and diesel be called 'carbon neutral'?
Applegreen sells a ‘carbon neutral’ driving option at pumps – how does that work?
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Mar 2nd 2022, 12:05 AM
FactCheck newsletter: Russia is fighting an 'Information War' - and it has spread to Ireland
Disinformation is significant aspect of the crisis unfolding in eastern Europe.
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Mar 1st 2022, 7:30 PM
FactCheck: Sign up to The Journal's monthly newsletter about misinformation trends
See how we’re fighting misinformation and disinformation every month.
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Feb 26th 2022, 6:06 PM
Disinformation, Ukraine and the war of words on social media
In the first 14 hours of the invasion fact-checkers had already found 34 pieces of disinformation about the conflict.
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Feb 24th 2022, 8:00 PM
FactCheck: Has Sinn Féin objected to the construction of 6,000 houses?
A report by
Stephen McDermott
The claim has repeatedly been made by the Taoiseach.
The claim has repeatedly been made by the Taoiseach in the Dáil during debates on housing.
Fianna Fáil cited 24 motions on housing across five different local authorities as evidence for the claim.
Government party's councillors voted the same way as their opposition counterparts in some votes, Stephen McDermott writes.
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Feb 19th 2022, 12:05 AM
FactCheck: A claim that Covid -19 vaccines don’t stop transmission of the virus is misleading
A now suspended account on Twitter made the claim, but does it have any truth to it?
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Feb 18th 2022, 5:43 PM
FactCheck: Is the Protocol costing Northern Ireland's economy £2.5 million every day?
DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson has made the claim multiple times in recent weeks.
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Feb 12th 2022, 8:00 PM
FactCheck: Was a Fine Gael junior minister right to say one in four SHDs are subject to judicial review?
Peter Burke made the claim on RTÉ radio.
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Feb 12th 2022, 12:10 AM
Debunked: No, this photo of a ship in the Antarctic does not prove that the Earth is flat
An image on social media purports to show proof of a flat Earth.
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Feb 3rd 2022, 3:45 PM
Debunked: No, the CDC is not selling $4.6 billion worth of vaccines each year
The CDC is the national public health agency in the United States.
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Jan 28th 2022, 4:21 PM
Debunked: No, mask mandates are not a 'war crime' that break the Nuremberg Code
Masks, mandates, and war crimes are not mentioned in the Nuremburg Code.
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Jan 28th 2022, 3:45 PM
FactCheck: Did a study say anyone who's had a cold is sufficiently protected against Covid-19?
We test claims from Irish website The Liberal that a study implies ‘vaccines were never required to begin with’.
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Jan 21st 2022, 1:00 PM
Debunked: No, this politician didn't fake his Covid vaccine booster
Social media claims this photo shows the cap was on the needle, meaning the injection didn’t happen.
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Jan 19th 2022, 12:08 PM
An open letter to YouTube’s CEO from the world’s fact-checkers
The open letter is addressed to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
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Jan 12th 2022, 5:00 AM
Factcheckers send open letter to YouTube over 'destructive' misinformation on the platform
The open letter is addressed to YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki from over 80 fact-checking organisations around the world.
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Jan 12th 2022, 5:00 AM
FactCheck: Will Minimum Unit Pricing on alcohol lead to an increase in drug use?
Is there evidence that alcohol users turn to drugs as a result of the policy?
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Jan 8th 2022, 6:30 AM
All time
FactCheck: This Irish video about masks is incorrect to claim they do not work against Covid-19
A video viewed thousands of times on an Irish Facebook page contains incorrect information about the effectiveness of masks.
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Dec 28th 2021, 5:00 PM
Factcheck: Did Bill Gates create an 'Omicron' video game in 1999?
A number of social media posts have linked Gates – and Microsoft – to the sci-fi game, suggesting Gates was in some way complicit in orchestrating the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Dec 24th 2021, 1:51 PM
FactCheck: Does this Dublin video prove masks increase carbon dioxide to dangerous levels?
A protester in Dublin claims her carbon dioxide-measuring device proves masks cause CO2 levels to exceed ‘dangerous’ amounts.
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Dec 16th 2021, 8:00 PM
FactCheck: No, the Australian Army didn't forcibly vaccinate Indigenous Australians
The claim caused a protest outside the Australian Embassy in Dublin
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Dec 13th 2021, 6:30 AM
Debunk: How did Omicron get to Australia if no one is allowed in or out?
Hint: They are. The variant was first detected from passengers arriving in Australia from abroad.
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Dec 7th 2021, 7:30 PM
Debunked: No, 80% of Covid deaths during October were not in fully vaccinated people
The claim is contained in a text-based post on Facebook.
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Dec 7th 2021, 6:29 PM
FactCheck: No, Conor McGregor wasn't correct to say vaccines 'have not worked' to stop Covid-19
The MMA athlete-turned-businessman claimed “The vaccines have not worked to stop this whatsoever.”
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Dec 7th 2021, 6:15 AM
Debunked: No, this US scientist has never been nominated for a Time Person of the Year
The claim is made in an image-based post circulating on Facebook.
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Dec 3rd 2021, 11:46 AM
FactCheck: Did Twitter, Walmart and CNBC's CEOs resign on same day as Ghislaine Maxwell's trial?
The highly publicised trial has attracted false internet-based claims before so let’s take a look at the latest allegations.
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Dec 3rd 2021, 6:15 AM
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