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May 8, 2026 On 27th April, Malta’s prime minister Robert Abela announced a snap general election for 30th May, nine months before his administration’s term

May 8, 2026 Informational workshops for students on the topic of “Disinformation and Content Verification” were conducted by the Journalism Research Laboratory (J-Lab) of the

Media Literacy

May 6, 2025 Be Online Smart is a campaign by the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and its network of 14 national hubs. It aims

The deepfake detection module is a tool that helps the user detect facial manipulations in images and videos. The tool can detect manipulations that are
One of the core functionalities of the provided platform is the automatic visual analysis of every asset at the time it is

Research

In January 2026, a covertly recorded video alleging irregularities in the financing of Nikos Christodoulides’s 2023 presidential campaign surfaced on X under the account “Emily
Polarisation is being exploited repeatedly in political rhetoric and forms the bedrock of much of the disinformation circulating in Malta and other places, not least

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