Fact-check Malta: Is a power cut deadly to someone with sleep apnoea?
Bernard Grech warned that power cuts can be fatal if someone’s sleep apnoea machine loses power
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Fact-check Malta: Are tourists in Malta spending more than they used to?
September 6, 2024 With the tourist season in full swing, the debate over the type of tourists arriving in Malta, and their impact on Malta’s economy, has once again hit the front pages. Tony Zahra, the president of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, one of Malta’s main tourism lobby groups, was the first to
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Misleading claims about aircraft deployed to Greek wildfires spread online
The fire broke out near the village of Varnavas, north of Athens and reached the northern suburbs of the capital the following day. Authorities evacuated several towns around Athens, as well as hospitals. Meanwhile, the Greek fire service said 702 firefighters and 35 aircraft were battling the flames.
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Fact-check Malta: How scammers are trying to get into your WhatsApp account
August 30, 2024 Have you recently received an “urgent” WhatsApp message from your friend asking you to send them a code? That ‘friend’ is no friend at all but a scammer trying to worm their way into kicking you out of your WhatsApp account. Police have urged the public to take more care as reports of WhatsApp
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Fact-check Malta: False adverts show laptops on sale for a pittance
The shop says it has been inundated with calls about a series of false adverts
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Fact-check Malta: Was Ryan Spagnol’s conviction hidden from sight?
The sentence only appeared online three months after it was handed down
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Turbine blade photo misused to claim Greek wildfire zone used for wind farm
“Soon neither 1 nor 2 but 92 wind turbines are expected to be installed from North to Central Evia, thus reaching the ‘magic’ number of 700. You read that right. 700 wind turbines. The burnt-out Evia of 550,000 acres has become… the battery of Greece’, reads a Facebook post from August 13, 2024, and shared over 2,100 times since.
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Fact-check Malta: When can police use their firearm?
August 16, 2024 Just after Nicolette Ghirxi was found fatally stabbed in her Swatar home in the early hours of Monday 12 August, police were locked in a dangerous showdown with her ex-partner, Edward Johnston, on the pitch-dark St Julians’ shoreline. Johnston is believed to have murdered Ghirxi earlier in the night. The negotiation ended in
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Fact-check Malta: Can a property owner rent their property to whoever they want?
A seemingly discriminatory advert for an apartment rental raised questions about the limits of property owners’ right to handpick their tenants
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Fact-check Malta: Inside the scam posts flooding Maltese social media
Hundreds of almost identical posts have hit Maltese Facebook in the past week
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