An Garda warns about fake confidential memo

On 2026-04-11, An Garda Siochana warned that a fabricated 'Confidential Operational Directive' was circulating widely on social media and messaging platforms in Ireland. The fake memo mimicked official Garda formatting and was publicly labeled a fake document by the police, who said no such directive had been issued. The event is best coded as a narrative warfare incident involving deliberately spread misinformation rather than a government censorship or shutdown action.