HSE social media monitors flagged 300 fake news comments in the past six weeks 

The HSE has a dedicated unit to fight misinformation.

The HSE has alerted social media companies to over 300 comments spreading harmful misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines in the last six weeks alone.

An eight-person social media unit within the HSE runs accounts across the major social media platforms. Their main focus is answering direct queries from the public but they increasingly work with social media companies to have inaccurate information removed.