In March, TheJournal published the following factcheck investigations:
- Debunked: These are not celebrity reactions to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
- FactFind: Is the carbon tax on home heating oil an excise duty – and could it be cut?
- Debunked: No, this is not an 8-year-old Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier.
- Debunked: No, these are not photos of the President and First Lady of Ukraine fighting on the front line
- FactCheck: Is this footage of the famed Ghost of Kyiv?
- Debunk: No, this isn’t a photo of Meryl Streep after a director said she was ‘too ugly’ for a role
- FactFind: How can petrol and diesel be called ‘carbon neutral’?
- FactCheck newsletter: Russia is fighting an ‘Information War’ – and it has spread to Ireland
TheJournal also published the following news items relating to disinformation:
- How Russia is using fake fact-checks to spread disinformation about Ukraine
- The Journal FactCheck joins Irish alliance to detect and respond to disinformation
For a summary of the the latest factchecks from EDMO factchecking partners across Europe, visit EDMO’s Fact-checking Briefs: https://edmo.eu/fact-checking-briefs/
