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Multiple social media posts are congratulating a Danish "anti-Islamic migration" political party on gains made during the 21 September election.
The only problem? Denmark hasn’t had an election since March.
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Claims that a group of foreign men were arrested at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin City for “waving a gun around” are false.
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Posts falsely claim that billionaire philanthropist George Soros was a Nazi and that he “owns” Antifa.
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False claims that the public is being “left in the dark” about rapes and sexual assaults due to the government creating new laws that enforce “media blackouts” have spread online.
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Donald Trump made a series of claims during his Ireland visit - about Irish pharma firms, investment in the US, diesel shortages and $5,000 payments to Americans.
We examined the evidence behind each
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Videos that purportedly show Mark Zuckerberg saying that water will run out in the following year, killing humanity, are AI-generated fakes.
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Pictures that appear to show the deceased child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein speaking to the President of the European Commission are AI-generated.
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A video of an airsoft rifle taken outside a takeaway in a Tallaght industrial estate became the basis for false claims about foreigners “coming over here to kill us”.
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AI-generated footage been posted online where it has been captioned with false claims that it shows the recent floods in Nepal and Tibet.
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Posts spread online falsely claim that the United Kingdom will be accommodating thousands of migrants who stormed the borders of a Spanish enclave in North Africa last month.
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“During meetings, platform representatives often appeared unfamiliar with the context of the unfolding election,” the report on misinformation in Ireland reads. “Many were unable to articulate the rationale for content-moderation decisions.”
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A story shared on social media that a Cork woman who was invited to smell a woman’s perfume and later woke up to find she had been robbed is a copy of an internet rumour.
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Old videos have been reused, falsely purporting to show thousands of migrants again overrunning the borders of Ceuta.
This footage was actually taken in July.
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Dublin Bus did hire nearly 100 drivers from South Africa, but not as part of an equality drive. They hired qualified, professional drivers from a country that drives on the left to tackle a driver shortage.
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The methane from ruminant animals is widely considered to be a significant source of greenhouse gases, though there are real controversies over how exactly this should be measured.
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A misquoted conversation from a live-streamed podcast has been used to falsely claim that an academic that advises the government on racism argued that the Irish language should be abandoned.
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While the thrust of the government's documents focus on battling institutional sexism, the strategy does include one cautionary description of tradwives.
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The international economics group, the OECD, has agreed to remove a misleading statistic they published which stated that tourist numbers to Ireland fell by 32% between 2019 and 2025.
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After the doctor who led the responses against the Covid pandemic in America was brought before a Senate hearing, false claims were shared by an Irish commentator that he had said that Covid was just the common flu.
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