{"id":1696,"date":"2026-07-24T21:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:47:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:47:40","slug":"weekly-fact-checking-round-up-covid-misinformation-resurfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-covid-misinformation-resurfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly fact-checking round-up: Covid misinformation resurfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), the EU supports a European network of fact-checkers, including TheJournal in Ireland. For a monthly roundup of European fact-checks, visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edmo.eu\/\">main EDMO website<\/a>. Here, we highlight recent fact-checks 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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/dr-patrick-morrissey-hearing-factcheck-debunked-ivermectin-irish-freedom-party-7112282-Jul2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/dr-patrick-morrissey-hearing-factcheck-debunked-ivermectin-irish-freedom-party-7112282-Jul2026\/\"><strong>Debunked: Doctor who promoted unproven Covid drugs isn&#8217;t on trial for \u2018questioning\u2019 authorities<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 24 July \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A claim that a doctor is on trial merely for &#8216;questioning&#8217; Covid authorities is misleading. Extensive clinical trials found that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine were ineffective against Covid-19, with hydroxychloroquine associated with worse outcomes in hospitalised patients, and there is no evidence these drugs improved survival or recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), the EU supports a European network of fact-checkers, including TheJournal in Ireland. For a monthly roundup of European fact-checks, visit the&nbsp;main EDMO website. Here, we highlight recent fact-checks by&nbsp;TheJournal FactCheck&nbsp;team. Debunked: Doctor who promoted unproven Covid drugs isn&#8217;t on trial for \u2018questioning\u2019 authorities Published: 24 July \u2013 by &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-covid-misinformation-resurfaces\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly fact-checking round-up: Covid misinformation resurfaces&#8221;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[79,27,28,44,54],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-factchecks","category-news","tag-covid-19","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","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1701"}],"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=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}