Fact-check Malta: Is pensioners’ income now completely tax-free?
A new measure promised to exempt pensioners earning up to €37,000 from income tax
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‘Narrative war’: disinformation surges as conflict roils Middle East
March 6, 2026 Recycled images, video game footage passed off as missile strikes, and AI-generated combat visuals: the US-Israeli assault on Iran has unleashed a torrent of online disinformation that analysts are calling a war of narratives. Since US and Israeli strikes over the weekend ignited a regional conflict, a parallel information war has erupted,
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Fact-check Malta: Fake video shows newscaster promoting sham lottery app
February 20, 2026 A new video showing a Television Malta (TVM) news feature about a lottery is manipulated by AI to promote what appears to be a sham lottery. The minute-long video shows Angelica Farrugia, a newscaster at the state broadcaster’s TV station TVM, presenting the evening news, as she would do on a typical
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Fact-check Malta: Behind Infinite Facts, Malta’s AI feel-good fake story generator
A Facebook page has racked up 23,000 followers on the back of fake feel-good stories
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AI tools fabricate Epstein images ‘in seconds,’ study says
February 10, 2026 AI tools can easily fabricate convincing images of Jeffrey Epstein with world leaders, a study has shown, following a surge of manipulated photos falsely linking prominent politicians to the convicted sex offender. Social media users have amplified AI-generated images purporting to show the convicted sex offender socializing with politicians such as New
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Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes
February 4, 2026 As deepfake videos of John Mearsheimer multiplied across YouTube, the American academic rushed to have them taken down, embarking on a grueling fight that laid bare the challenges of combating AI-driven impersonation. The international relations scholar spent months pressing the Google-owned platform to remove hundreds of deepfakes, an uphill battle that stands
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Fact-check Malta: Fake social media post warns of flight cancellations caused by Storm Harry
Fake image claims airport will be shut as old video from 2010 resurfaces on Facebook
Fact-check Malta: Viral video of Gozo ferry dates back to 2010
January 26, 2026 As Malta braced for Storm Harry’s gale force winds on Monday January 19, Maltese social media was hit with a wave of storm-related misinformation, with footage of years-old storms resurfacing and shared as new. In one case, footage of a Gozo Channel ferry attempting to carry passengers between the islands of Malta
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Fact-check Malta: Do 90% of under-35s own their own homes?
Robert Abela’s figures on young homeowners do not tally with the study he is citing
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Fact-check Malta: People showing up in Naxxar to collect dogs that never existed
January 23, 2026 A scam operation posing as a dog breeding and adoption agency is cheating would-be dog owners of their hard-earned cash, a veterinary clinic and grooming salon close to the operation’s listed address warn. Last week, a social media post by Abaigeal Ragogna, an employee at a dog grooming salon in the town
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