The Radio Nova Fact Checker

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at a deepfake news report has been doing the rounds on social media, advertising a financial platform called "Ryanchain" claiming to be run by Ryanair and its CEO Micheal O 'Leary.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at images making rounds online of protesters against the use of property for asylum seekers. While many images and videos of the protests are real, some question if a specific image showing hundreds of protesters is even real.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at Donald Trump supporters claiming a farewell message from Donald Trump on X is a fake. While it does not appear on Trumps social media page, the email it self is genuine. According to snoops, the farewell email can be found on the archive of political emails. 

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at a post that claimed the EU is pressuring the Irish government to not call a general election until the new EU laws are running. However, the Journal points out have already that many of these laws had already been passed, not been presented or having little to do with the EU.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at social media post and promotions on colleges offering free online further education courses. The University of Galway and Trinity College have stated that the ads are not genuine.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at claims from social media users that Cadbury had been re-branding "Easter Eggs" to "Jester Eggs" to suit people of all faiths with images that have been shared on social media platforms. While the posts advertising the Jester Eggs exist, Cadbury stated they did not sponsor the idea, nor have they changed the name from Easter Eggs.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at an anti-migration TikTok post believed to have taken place in Dublin, of a dozen people entering a suburban house, captioning it as "human-trafficking". However, this post was debunked by the Journal with the video taking place last year in Germany instead of Ireland. 

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at a chart making its rounds on X, claiming to rank Dublin number one at having the worst homeless problem in the world. However, this is branded as false with the chart being about the best homeless services in cities.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at a recent claim from Meta, where a policy would allow the social media site to do whatever it wished with peoples photos. The claim also said that copying and pasting messages into a post would prevent it. However, these claims have been quashed by the websites snoops, calling the post "copy pasta".

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at an AI generated audio clip of celebrity chief Gordan Ramsay, in which the deepfake audio was being used to support anti-migration protesters.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at stickers that have appeared on lamposts, which appears to advocate for Sharia law in Ireland. Images of the stickers have appeared on social media and viewed thousands of times.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at edited screenshots from an online news article, to appear as if the site had reported that an office block in Galway was to be repurposed as a center for 900 male migrants.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we look at a clip that was shared from a national broadcaster, where its was claimed by a former Fine Gael TD, that only 16,000 people speak the Irish language naturally.

On this week's Radio Nova Fact Checker, we've been looking at how social media users misinterpreted a COVID vaccination headline on Facebook that referenced hospitalization and death due to lack of COVID vaccination. 

On this week's first Radio Nova Fact Checker, we've been looking at a video doing the rounds on social media claiming the Eifel Tower in Paris had caught fire.