Fact-check Malta: Is Malta’s national wealth per person the same as Sweden’s?
Robert Abela said Malta had caught up with Sweden over the past 12 years
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Fact-check Malta: Did the judiciary support raising judges’ retirement age?
March 30, 2026 Claim: Malta’s judiciary is in favour of raising judges’ retirement age. Verdict: The sitting chief justice said he was ‘disappointed’ that a bill proposing reforms, which included raising judges’ retirement age was not approved, but he did not expressly refer to the retirement age issue. A heated episode of talk show Il-Każin
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Fact-check Malta: Was government forced to name its chief justice nominee?
March 30, 2026 Claim: Government only named its nominee for Judge Consuelo Scerri Herrera to be the next chief justice because of a parliamentary vote forcing its hand. Verdict: This is false. Scerri Herrera’s candidature was announced a week before a parliamentary vote was held. In an episode of talk show Il-Każin, government MP Ramona
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Fact-check Malta: When did discussions over Malta’s next chief justice start?
We check claims made by Ramona Attard and Darren Carabott in a debate on Il-Każin
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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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