“The Irish Defence Forces have been sent into prisons to ‘force’ inmates to get Covid-19 vaccines.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 9 Jun 2021.
TheJournal.ie rated thisFalse
What TheJournal.ie found
All prisoners have the right to accept or decline to receive a vaccine and the Defence Forces have not administered any vaccines to prisoners in Irish prisons.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 9 June 2021. TheJournal.ie (Ireland) looked into it and published its finding on 17 June 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
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