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Posts shared to local buy and sell groups falsely claim a man has been attacking people in various locations in England. The man pictured was arrested in the US state of Alabama earlier this month. Read
Senator Eileen Flynn made comments supporting women wearing hijabs in the Seanad in 2022, but they do not reflect any official celebration in Ireland. Read
Posts promoting supposed offers that seem too good to be true are very common on sites like Facebook. Read
Posts shared to local buy and sell groups falsely claim a man has been shooting people dead. The man pictured in the posts was arrested in Mexico last year. Read
A post supposedly shared by Rupert Lowe MP calling on the deputy Prime Minister to ‘remove teaching any sign language in the UK’ was created by a satirical account. Read
The images have been shared into numerous local Facebook groups with false claims they show a recently rescued dog. Read
The Facebook post makes a number of misleading claims about taxes in the UK, and has been shared over 132,000 times. Read
These posts have been circulating since at least 2017, but contain claims that are either unevidenced or false. Read
A video which is being shared widely online by people thinking it is genuine is an example of ‘rage bait’; a post designed to make people angry to drive engagement. Read
It was the international charity BBC Media Action, not the BBC as a whole, which got 8% of its funding from the United States Agency for International Development in 2023/24. Read
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