Misinformation has been circulated online falsely linking a well-known Dublin coach company to involvement in transporting asylum seekers to the site in Coolock which has seen violent disturbances in recent days.
It is just one of several instances in which misinformation has proliferated across social media, seemingly without any moderation policies preventing or limiting it.
Nolan Coaches released a statement this afternoon following posts in the morning from a person linked to the protests.
The person involved in the 'Coolock Says No' group posted a video in which they claimed they had been contacted by Nolan Coaches to say the Department of Integration had requested transport for "150 people" into the former Crown Paints site on Wednesday night.
In the video, the person thanks Nolan Coaches for the information, then encourages people to return to the Coolock site on Wednesday.
In a statement published this afternoon, Nolan Coaches said "firstly, Nolan Coaches has not been contacted by the Department of Integration with any requests to transport asylum seekers to Coolock. Any rumours or statements suggesting otherwise are entirely false.
"Furthermore, we want to categorically state that we have not reached out to any protestors or provided any information related to such activities.
"Nolan Coaches does not, and has not in the past, operate buses for the Department of Integration for the movement of refugees. This has never been part of our services and will not be in the future."
In a statement, the Department of Integration said: "No International Protection applicants are due to be accommodated at the Crown Paints site today as the work required to bring the site into use is anticipated to take several weeks."
The video was streamed live on X, formerly Twitter, at 11.20am on Wednesday. The former Crown Paints site was at the centre of violent disturbances on Monday and Tuesday.
Read more: From morning to night: How the clashes in Coolock developed
It is the latest in a number of pieces of misinformation circulating online about the site, where there have been ongoing protests since March.
During disturbances on Monday, a large excavator on the site was set on fire.
On Wednesday, a video combining footage from the disturbances and AI-generated images was posted by an anonymous social media account which amplifies negative content relating to immigration and migrants.
Within hours, it had several hundred retweets on X and been viewed tens of thousands of times.
In the video it is claimed that the excavator was set ablaze by a garda in plain clothes using "a little mechanism... to start the fire." The creator of the video attributes the claims to an unidentified whistleblower.
The video was also circulated on Irish anti-immigration Telegram groups.
It remains on X, as do other pieces of misinformation. In recent years, X has significantly cut its number of content moderators.
In several other such videos, users falsely claimed in recent days that gardaí set fire to their own vehicles in Coolock.
The theory is based on a video in which a garda can be seen examining the wheel of a garda car that is smoking.
Other footage which is confirmed to have been taken earlier in the disturbances shows a person in a black hooded jacket and grey shorts lighting a fire at the same wheel of the Garda vehicle.
Flames can also be seen on the ground underneath the vehicle.
Another subsequent video shows gardaí using a fire extinguisher to put out the fire, which was moving from the front wheel into the engine block of the vehicle.
