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📰 New Fact-Check Dispatch - The Bondi Beach terror attack: Unpacking the viral lies and fact-checking the hero's misidentification spotlight.ebu.ch/p/bondi-beac... 📝 @maria.ebu.ch #OSINT #factchecking #EBUSpotlight

Since yesterday, our fact-checking network has been doing a deep dive on the misinfo surrounding the Bondi attack. See the top false claims here, and how we got to the truth. #EBUSpotlight spotlight.ebu.ch/p/bondi-beac...

COP30 is here! We've done a huge prebunk of claims circulating about COP summits, the credentials of Brazil, and how best to tackle the climate emergency. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/from-clima...

Krisen sind immer ein gutes Einfallstor für Fakes. Zum Hurricane Melissa kursieren spektakuläre KI-Videos und altes Material. 🦈 @maria.ebu.ch warnt vorm Risiko für vielbeschäftigte Redaktionen, die in kurzen Nachrichtenzyklen nach Inhalten suchen. spotlight.ebu.ch/p/deluge-of-...

Our investigation: an agency of the Israeli government deployed cross-platform advertising and used state social media accounts to directly target and encourage the public in participating countries to vote for the Israeli entry in the Eurovision Song Contest

Wrote this review of the week in fact-checks, featuring our colleagues from RTVE🇪🇸 VRT🇧🇪 SVT🇸🇪 EBU🇨🇭 BBC🇬🇧 and Deutsche Welle🇩🇪 Free to read & subscribe! 💡

Someone I know died recently. In the Facebook comments beneath articles about his tragic death, there's an influx of spam comments among the condolences, containing links purporting to show the accident that killed him.

As a catholic, nothing more jarring to me than seeing a dude wearing a hoodie preaching onstage somewhere in the vicinity of a drum set

Bold of us to assume they're not also living in a society

My Animal Crossing island just got hit with 10% tariffs

The fact that people keep asking Grok to explain or confirm stories on X instead of activating a few brain cells is enough to make you despair for the future

When Trump says these tariffs are “reciprocal” it’s important to know he’s counting stuff like VAT – which is charged on domestic products as well as imports – as tariffs, which no-one else does. Because they’re not. So the numbers he’s giving are all nonsense.

Oh so we've gone full game-show

Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions

Women protesting outside Leinster House strip-searched, one subjected to cavity search

The year is 2025. Amazon finally launches in Ireland.

In advance of #stpatricksday, here's a thread of essential articles about Irish stuff which you can present to international friends who wish to understand us better. First up: a tale of two Taytos, by Róisín Lanigan. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/4005...

From an Irish perspective, it has always seemed utterly bizarre that the head of state of Canada is the British monarch. So it's even more dumbfounding to imagine their king inviting Donald Trump for a state visit in the face of the wild threats he's made against Canada, one of his territories.

Ireland, do your thing (find out exactly what Mayo village Mark Carney's grandparents came from)

Great to see Danny Dyer doing absolute bits. Although for me I fear he's never going to beat his "trotters up" run

Hope he sees this

I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

Watching the Lotto ad where the guy builds an elaborate water slide in his neighbourhood: "As if the council would ever approve that"

Fully agree with Donal Skehan that Ireland should have a national song contest, separate from the Late Late Show. Let's do an Irish Sanremo that our top talent can be proud to enter — for the prestige of it alone, with Eurovision entry as an additional perk! #Eurosong

Forever enthralled by this story — @francemidwest.bsky.social

Everyone's going mad for the Garda tractor but may I present:

The Quiet Man and The Field on the same day, broken up by The Incredibles 2 and the Gavin and Stacey finale. I love Stephen's Day, thank u @rte.ie

EXCLUSIVE Robert Jenrick says he’s a ‘great admirer’ of a popular far-right X account The account called for mosques to be raided and the Quran to be banned after recent attacks in Germany. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/rob...

We are going to be so tired for the next 4 years

Feeling Christmassy

Paddystinian is so funny, how did they not realise we would love it

reading about the Pelicot case always fills me with misandrist rage anyway but christ I could do with fewer men posting "wow, to think men can do that :(" today and more men actually challenging other guys in their-day-to-day lives, having the uncomfortable chats, stepping in when needed, etc etc

Israel will close its embassy in Dublin in light of "the extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government," Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said.

Perhaps the least encouraging words in the English language: "The President has been watching right-wing Youtube".

Tributes have been paid to a Palestinian football player who spent time in Ireland who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza yesterday

A news outlet censoring key words in a story to get around an algorithm on a Meta platform

And now X has verified Mangione’s account

But also: Interest in health & wellness ➡️ woo to Q

The suspect was part of an online community for a video game centred around slaying (Dress To Impress)

If I ever go down for a crime I didn't commit, I want you all to know that I played the game Fall Guys

It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨

If the folks setting up the new government in Syria want some ideas, I've looked into the situation for the last half hour or so and I think I could help. DMs are open.

I'll tell you what the European mind can't comprehend: this level of reporting about a guy who's just hearing his charges

"She alleges Carter removed her clothes, held her down and raped her while Combs and an unnamed female celebrity watched. She says Combs also raped her as Carter and the woman looked on."

Sixty-six thousand fake accounts and ten million fake followers were removed, just on TikTok and just for Romania’s election. The scale is shocking: we’re not talking about hundreds or thousands of posts, but millions—every single day! #romania #russia

A perfect local story with this amazing line: “Obviously times have changed and are moving on in spite of me,” said Cllr Teskey, who was born in 1990.

My new piece for the New York Times, where I make the case that we need a lot more education to deal with disinformation, not more censorship and fact checks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

The kids are alright #LateLateToyShow