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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond
A USER-POWERED fact-checking system designed to curb misinformation on X, formerly Twitter, has quietly disappeared from user feeds. The unexplained disappearance of Community Notes, the social media site’s main tool to stall the spread of misinformation, has raised questions whether the controversial Elon Musk-owned platform is meeting its legal obligations.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond
A CAR RAMMING in Liverpool left dozens injured yesterday evening, and was quickly followed by misinformation, speculation, and conspiracy theories about the suspect. The city’s mayor has said that four people are still “very, very ill in hospital” after the car ploughed into a crowd yesterday during the parade celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title win.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond
A CLAIM THAT Dublin is the ninth “unsafest” city in Europe has been shared online, despite no reliable evidence that this is the case. The finding was published by an online betting company’s ranking of casino destinations and appears to have been based solely on surveys asking people about their “perception of crime levels”, “perceived safety”, and other non-objective measures. “Dublin ranks among the top ten most dangerous major cities in Europe,” one Facebook post reads.
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2 weeks ago |
thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond
A POST SHARED hundreds of times on social media shows a blurry image of a man whom it’s claimed tried to “take a child” in Cahir, Co Tipperary. However, there is no evidence that there was an attempted child abduction in Cahir recently, and gardaí as well as all the councillors in the Local Electoral Area told The Journal that they had heard no word of such a crime.
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2 weeks ago |
thejournal.ie | Shane Raymond
FOLLOWING THE ELECTION of the first ever American pope earlier this month, a supposed quote from the Catholic supreme pontiff in which he praised being “woke” has been shared widely online. The quote, endorsing a term associated with American progressive politics, was seen as a significant addition to the scant evidence for Leo XIV’s political leanings, which have been agonised over online.
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