{"id":1593,"date":"2026-06-19T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:06:44","slug":"weekly-fact-checking-round-up-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly factchecking round-up: 12-18 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-photos-of-man-with-knife-injuries-is-not-the-victim-of-the-belfast-attask-7069108-Jun2026\/\">Debunked: Photos of injured man do not show the victim of the Belfast attack<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 12 June \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images shared widely on social media claimed to show the victim of a high-profile knife attack in Belfast. TheJournal FactCheck found that the photographs were unrelated to the incident and had been taken from an earlier, unrelated case. The misleading posts contributed to confusion as false information about the attack spread online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/factcheck-debunked-graph-hottest-springs-climate-change-global-warming-chart-met-eireann-hottest-springs-7064300-Jun2026\/\">Debunked: Misleading graph used to cast doubt on record spring temperatures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 12 June \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A graph shared online claimed to show that spring 2026 was not unusually warm, contradicting reports from Met \u00c9ireann. TheJournal FactCheck found that the chart selectively used data and omitted key context, while official records confirmed that spring 2026 was Ireland\u2019s warmest spring on record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/debunked-georgians-asylum-seekers-ireland-international-protection-statistics-7072283-Jun2026\/\">Debunked: Claims about Georgian asylum seekers and the EU Migration Pact misrepresent official data<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 17 June \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posts shared online falsely claimed that the Irish government encouraged Georgian asylum seekers to come to Ireland in order to create a migration crisis and justify the EU Migration Pact. TheJournal FactCheck found that the claims relied on misleading statistics and omitted key context about recent declines in applications from Georgian nationals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/debunked-georgians-asylum-seekers-ireland-international-protection-statistics-7072283-Jun2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/debunked-georgians-asylum-seekers-ireland-international-protection-statistics-7072283-Jun2026\/\">Debunked: The government didn&#8217;t engineer a crisis by bringing Georgian asylum seekers to Ireland<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 17 June \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posts shared online falsely claimed that the Irish government encouraged Georgian asylum seekers to come to Ireland to create a migration crisis and justify the EU Migration Pact. TheJournal FactCheck found the claims relied on misleading statistics and omitted key context about recent declines in applications from Georgian nationals.<\/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: Photos of injured man do not show the victim of the Belfast attack Published: 12 June \u2013 &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly factchecking round-up: 12-18 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-1593","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\/1593","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=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1993"}],"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=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}