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Two photos have been shared widely online, including by far-right influencers, falsely claiming to show Stephen Ogilvie, the victim of a knife attack in Belfast on Monday night.
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A misleading visualisation of Ireland’s weather, posted by MMA coach John Kavanagh, was shared to suggest that Ireland’s climate is steady. It instead shows that four of the five hottest spring seasons on record here have occurred since 2023.
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Police in Northern Ireland have denied rumours that they were looking for a second suspect who took part in a knife attack on Monday night that left a man without an eye.
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A spirited radio debate last week left listeners befuddled as a doctor and the chair of the Sunbed Association contradicted each other on medical research.
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Footage showing party at a back garden in a Dublin suburb have been shared online along with misleading captions indicating that the government is building housing estates specifically for African migrants.
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A viral voice note claiming a woman in Co Derry had been drugged by touching a business card given to her by “foreign nationals” has been spread widely online. There is no evidence that the story is real, or even scientifically possible.
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A confrontation between security personnel hired by Bord na Móna and a man who was living and cutting turf on their land has been widely publicised online, with false claims that it shows foreigners taking over that man’s property.
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Genetically modified have been the subject of much debate, with some people portraying them as a Frankenstein-esque violation of the natural order.
Are there stricter safety standards for food given to organic livestock than for human beings?
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By the end of the year, many of your personal identity documents, such as your passport or driving licence, may live in a government-provided app on your phone.
These plans have been met with claims of a totalitarian takeover in conspiracy theory groups.
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Ebola, hantavirus, Covid: viruses have hit the headlines since the pandemic despite, according to some adherents of alternative medicine, not existing at all — that is, if you ignore a wealth of evidence.
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The outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise ship has presented conspiracy theorists with their latest opportunity to spread fear and disinformation.
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Posts claiming Pope Leo XIV had spurned the Trump administration by honouring Iran’s ambassador misrepresent a standard ceremony that saw 13 diplomats honoured.
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A screenshot what appears to be a bizarre news story has been shared widely around the internet, claiming that the government is offering free cheese to people who are first to take a hantavirus vaccine.
The claim is false.
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Claims shared online that say the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that hantavirus is spreading rapidly across the world are false.
The WHO has not made this claim. The outbreak remains limited.
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non-profit groups say their volunteers and staff face “routine harassment” due to misinformation being shared online.
Some received so-called 'bait' emails which were intentionally designed to provoke a controversial response.
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Ttrying to understand hantavirus – an older, rarer and far more fatal disease – with reference to Covid, one of the most contagious and unexpected virus outbreaks in the last century, has led to distortions in how people talk and think about it.
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An antiparasitic drug that was falsely held up as a cure for Covid during the pandemic is now being pushed again, this time as a cure for cancer.
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A video complaining about Ukrainians in Ireland makes a number of false claims, including the false statistic that nine out of every ten Ukrainians in Ireland don’t have jobs.
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A story from last year about an elderly woman being abandoned at a fast-food outlet has been reshared by an Irish anti-immigration activist with additional fabricated details.
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Dramatic events prompt dramatic speculation. And in the hours after what appears to be an assassination attempt at a dinner Donald Trump was attending, speculation about time travel, false flags, and Israeli plots ran wild.
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