To deliver the stories that are important to you #Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal The video was titled ‘For all the doubters as to the authenticity of these posters.’ However, the fake Covid ‘alert’ appeared to be stuck on the outside of the health clinic’s windows unlike signs with the clinic’s logos which were placed inside the glass. While the location of the poster in the original Twitter and Facebook post is unknown, a video posted on 28 November from a Twitter account named ‘ accountability101’ showed a copy of a poster on a doctor’s office window in Swords. The false booster claims were translated into Italian, Polish and Romanian. Source: Twitter Facebook a screenshot of Levant’s tweet was shared by 10 prominent groups and pages including a former Canadian foreign minister, drumming up over 2,500 interactions with the fake poster. One Twitter user, Ivor Cummins, an engineer sceptical of masks and lockdown, tweeted a photo of the poster to his 149.1k followers last Friday before it was taken down for “violating Twitter rules”.īy Sunday, prominent Canadian right wing publisher Ezra Levant had tweeted the same photo to his 288k followers with the caption, “It really is like those coffee shop cards you get stamped – five coffees, get the sixth free.” However, the poster and its false information had already spread across several social media platforms. While the poster ‘used the government Covid brand’ the Health Service Executive confirmed ‘this is false collateral.’ Along the bottom of the poster, six vaccine icons appear with two ticked off, indicating four more to go.Ī HSE spokesperson told The Journal ‘the information included on the poster was not authorised or published by the HSE.’ “Privileges will be granted to fully vaccinated people only,” the Covid-19 ‘alert’ advised. The poster confirmed as fake by the HSE with misleading vaccine advice. The false public health advice went on to warn ‘that failure to keep your vaccinations up to date on an ongoing basis’ would void vaccine passports. Please come forward to receieve your Covid 19 booster” THE HSE HAS confirmed a poster with official government logos warning the public to get multiple ‘ongoing’ vaccine boosters to maintain ‘privileges’ is a fake.īranded in the HSE logo and using similar design elements to the official HSE Covid-19 advice, the posters claimed ‘To protect our vunerable community this winter it is vital we play our part.
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