The Irish Channel - Investigating an Irish Misinformation Hub, Political Connections and AI Hallucinations

The Irish Channel reiterated its claims of election manipulation and, once again, quoted TII and the non-existent McNamara in its rebuttal.5 ISD has contacted both the Irish Channel and the author to offer a right to reply and to ask for evidence that McNamara exists. [...] By forging a relationship with the IFP and forming close links to the party, the Irish Channel could be argued to have, in effect, become a media and broadcasting arm for the IFP. [...] The Irish Channel 14 Online operation: ‘The Premier Content Network’ The Irish Channel website is part of a sprawling network programmatic ads, generated by the Taboola advertising of websites and social media accounts that all are part of platform, load at the bottom of the screen. [...] content of value).” Articles end by listing the name of the YouTube channel By embedding a YouTube video and using the YouTube to c redit them and then encouraging visitors to the PCN video title and description as their own article headline website to “support our sponsors” before a collection of and text, and by publishing these ‘articles’ in combination with advertising, the PCN websites’ behav. [...] articles published on the PCN’s vast array of recently uploaded on that platform and related to the website’s topic, and the headline and encouraging visitors to the PCN website to “support our sponsors” before a collection of The Irish Channel 15 Conclusion This report highlights the role of the Irish Channel as a hub for misinformation content in Ireland, which has been observed to publish false.