A video showing caskets draped in the flag of the United States being taken off a military plane has been shared widely online along with descriptions falsely indicating that it shows casualties from the conflict with Iran.
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An explosion at a school in southern Iran has sparked arguments over who is to blame for the blast that is said to have killed more than 165 people, most of them children.
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Old footage, clips from computer games, and AI-generated videos have swamped social media alongside captions which suggest that they show footage from ongoing events in the conflict between Iran and the US/Israel and their allies.
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In the wake of an explosion at a school in Iran on Saturday, false claims that the Iranian government had admitted responsibilty were shared and seen by millions of people online.
Here's what we know, and don't know, about what happened.
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An explosion a school in southern Iran has sparked arguments over who is to blame for the blast that is said to have killed more than 165 people, most of them children.
US, Israeli, and Iranian forces have all been blamed. But some of the evidence presented has been misleading.
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Cadbury's has confirmed that it is not selling chocolate eggs to celebrate an Islamic holiday, after fake images of 'Eid eggs' were shared online in recent weeks.
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Fake images of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor have circulated online since the former British prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
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Footage of the highs and lows from the Winter Olympics has been filling many people's social media feeds since the games kicked off in Italy in early February, but some of it is not real.
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FactCheck: Are more homes currently being built in Ireland than ever before?
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Fianna Fáil senator Mary Fitzpatrick claimed this week that Ireland is experiencing record levels of house-building. Was she correct?
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False claims have spread suggesting that a Republican congressman said uncensored documents in the Epstein files reveal the existence of prototypes for a superweapon belonging to the Israeli state.
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A claim that 1% of the Indian population will move to Ireland under a “new EU open door to India policy” has been viewed online tens of thousands of times despite referring to a policy that does not exist.
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A map been shared online that purports to show the second-most-spoken language in each of Ireland's county council areas — with Irish being replaced by languages such as Polish.
The map, however, is false.
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There are a number of AI-generated or altered images appearing to show Jeffrey Epstein alive in Israel, but they are fake.
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The mention of skateboarding legend Tony Hawk's name in a document contained in the latest release of files from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein led to numerous claims online that he got married on the sex offender's private island. He didn't.
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By characterising EU leaders as the orchestrators of an "invasion" designed to wipe out the white people of Europe, those on the far right show they are either wilfully ignorant of the truth about Europe's border policies, or fundamentally disconnected from reality.
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For the far right in Europe and beyond, one aspect of the deal represents a blueprint for an Indian “invasion” of the continent and confirmation that the racist ‘Great Replacement’ conspiracy theory reflects reality.
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Some people have taken the opportunity to spread false allegations about notable figures in Irish public life, including U2 singer Bono, Taoiseach Micheál Martin and former justice minister Alan Shatter.
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A puzzling statement, made by an official X account for US Republican lawmakers, has falsely claimed that the EU had “fined X €45 million after concluding people would think Donald Duck was a real person".
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An anti-immigration campaigner has posted a picture that appears to show a dinghy boat full of men with light-brown skin drinking cans of beer on the River Liffey as Dublin floods.
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A book published in 1989 is said to show plans for a conspiracy to use Covid-19 and 5G radiation to kill large amounts of people and cause anarchy.
However, multiple anachronisms show these claims to be fake.
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A baseless claim continues to spread that Jamie Oliver won a “legal battle” with McDonald’s by proving that the company's food was not fit for human consumption.
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Claims that the President of the European Central Bank is planning to outlaw cash transactions over €1,000 appear to confuse rules already in force regarding large cash transactions in the EU, French laws, and limits on cryptocurrency trading.
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Clips of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaking have been spread widely along with false captions claiming that she is saying that the EU migration treaty is “a betrayal of Europeans”.
The footage was filmed in 2018, before the pact existed.
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Donald Trump claimed in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland today that the United States has never asked its Nato allies for anything.
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Claims that Greenland would “bypass” Denmark to negotiate a possible annexation with the US government directly either have no source, or are misrepresenting out-of-context comments by an opposition party.
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“An AI machine which, in response to a user's prompt, creates any response — be it in text or image format — is legally responsible for the publication of that content," one legal expert told The Journal.
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The Journal spoke with experts in the law for their opinions on which (if any) laws were broken in the Grok-X AI image scandal, who is legally liable, and whether new legislation is needed.
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Remigration is the name given to a white nationalist plan to ethnically cleanse Western countries of non-white people.
It's been referred to in numerous official US government statements, including some made by Donald Trump.
Fake images of Sinn Féin activists dressed as Orangemen, covered with ash in a warzone, waving the English flag, and attending an LGBT+ Pride parade wearing sparkling shirts and a harness, have spread online.
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