{"id":1585,"date":"2026-06-05T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:12:18","slug":"weekly-fact-checking-round-up-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly factchecking round-up: 29 May &#8211; 4 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), the EU supports a European network of factcheckers, including TheJournal in Ireland. For a monthly roundup of European factchecks, visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edmo.eu\/\">main EDMO website<\/a>. Here, we highlight recent pieces by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/factcheck\/news\/\">TheJournal FactCheck<\/a>&nbsp;team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/debunked-factcheck-northern-ireland-co-derry-business-card-knockout-foreign-nationals-7060367-Jun2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/debunked-factcheck-northern-ireland-co-derry-business-card-knockout-foreign-nationals-7060367-Jun2026\/\">Debunked: No evidence a woman was drugged with a doused business card in Co Derry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 4 June \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A viral voice note claimed a woman in Co Derry was drugged after accepting a business card from a group described as \u201cforeign nationals\u201d. The fact-check found no evidence that the incident occurred, with police confirming they received no formal report and subsequent enquiries failed to substantiate the claims. The article also noted that similar \u201cdrugged business card\u201d stories have circulated internationally for years as urban legends and are often used to fuel fear and suspicion towards migrant communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), the EU supports a European network of factcheckers, including TheJournal in Ireland. For a monthly roundup of European factchecks, visit the&nbsp;main EDMO website. Here, we highlight recent pieces by&nbsp;TheJournal FactCheck&nbsp;team. Debunked: No evidence a woman was drugged with a doused business card in Co Derry Published: 4 June &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly factchecking round-up: 29 May &#8211; 4 June 2026&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,28,44,54],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-factchecks","tag-disinformation","tag-fact-checking","tag-misinformation","tag-thejournal"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pexels-hartonocreativestudio-20457108-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}