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Malta: Report on political disinformation against civil society

In a country that suffers from deep polarisation, protest for political accountability is dismissed as a partisan act. Malta’s ruling party, the Labour Party, particularly capitalised on this in early 2025, when civil society fought against the magisterial inquiry reform bill that was widely regarded as an attack on the rule of law. By propagating the narrative that civil society is an extremist faction of the Opposition, the government and its media have fostered social division as a means of exerting control.

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Cyprus: Disinformation report on misleading claims about the Russian-Ukraine war spread through podcasts by MEP Feidias Panagiotou

The podcast run by controversial MEP Feidias Panagiotou has featured a series of misleading claims about the Russian-Ukraine war, including descriptions of the conflict as a civil war, rather than an international invasion. This report discusses some of the more prominent claims made on Panagiotou’s podcast.

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Monitoring Meta, Google, and TikTok’s practices to combat Disinformation in Greece, Cyprus, and Malta: MedDMO 2nd Annual Report – Part B (2024)

This is the second part of MedDMO’s annual report on platform practices and national authority support for Cyprus, Greece, and Malta. Covering the period from 1 January to 30 June 2024, the report offers a qualitative assessment of how…

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