{"id":1712,"date":"2026-08-14T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:55:40","slug":"weekly-fact-checking-round-up-covid-tourism-tradwives-and-the-irish-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-covid-tourism-tradwives-and-the-irish-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly factchecking round-up: 7-13 August 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\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/fauci-covid-common-flu-factcheck-debunked-7124640-Aug2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/fauci-covid-common-flu-factcheck-debunked-7124640-Aug2026\/\"><strong>Debunked: Anthony Fauci did not say that Covid was nothing more than the common flu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 7 August \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">False allegations on social media said Anthony Fauci admitted Covid was \u201cnothing more than the common flu\u201d during a Senate hearing. In reality, Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment rights, and the hearing contained no such statement; references to \u201cflu\u201d concerned influenza and vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/ireland-tourism-statistics-oecd-cso-32-percent-2019-2025-7124318-Aug2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/ireland-tourism-statistics-oecd-cso-32-percent-2019-2025-7124318-Aug2026\/\"><strong>FactCheck: OECD to remove bogus statistic that tourism in Ireland fell by 32%<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 10 August \u2013 by Shane Raymond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 32% drop in tourism between 2019 and 2025 is based on a misleading comparison of two different CSO surveys. The OECD has agreed to correct the figure, which does not show a real decline in visitor numbers. Other indicators, including Dublin Airport passenger figures, instead suggest tourism activity increased over the period.<\/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: Anthony Fauci did not say that Covid was nothing more than the common flu Published: 7 August &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/weekly-fact-checking-round-up-covid-tourism-tradwives-and-the-irish-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly factchecking round-up: 7-13 August 2026&#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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,28,44,54],"class_list":["post-1712","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\/1712","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=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1978"}],"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=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmohub.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}