Images of the Whitegate fuel protests earlier this month were altered to make it appear gardaí were violent towards protesters.
The AI-doctored images were shared widely online, including by international far-right agitators.
Others that were posted deliberately targeted individual gardaí.
One such image was of Garda Chris Daly working at the protests. It included calls to identify him and “run him out of the community”.
Mr Daly was deployed from Cork City with the public order unit to police the blockade at the Whitegate oil refinery.
Spurious allegations were made online that he "was mad to crack heads", despite clear evidence the blockade had been policed calmly and without violence. Both gardaí and the main protesters maintained good relationships throughout the East Cork protest.
But Mr Daly knows of five gardaí who were policing Whitegate who had their images shared online with efforts made to identify them.
While “the good people of Cork” never shared Mr Daly’s identity or address, other gardaí did have their home addresses shared.
Mr Daly said he was concerned about his wife and children being home alone and having to deal with abusive people coming to the door if his address was publicised.
"People's names shared and families threatened online, that's just unfair, that's passing the line," he said.
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Images of the Whitegate fuel protests earlier this month were altered to make it appear gardaí were violent towards protesters. The AI-doctored images were shared widely online, including by inter...