A series of scam posts use audio deepfakes to imitate popular local figures
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In a report entitled “Russian influence efforts converge on 2024 Paris Olympic Games” published in June 2024, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Centre (MTAC) said that it had “observed a network of Russia-affiliated actors pursuing a range of malign influence campaigns against France, French President Emmanuel Macron, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the Paris Games”.
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Clayton Bartolo made the claim last week. Edward Zammit Lewis said the same thing a decade ago.
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July 10, 2024 Social media users have recently shared a photo on social media that they claim shows ‘Roman tidal baths’ in Malta that disprove climate change. One X user sharing the photo wrote ‘Roman tidal baths on Malta – still at sea level after thousands of years. But – climate change is about to
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July 10, 2024 Social media sees an endless stream of trends. A potential contender for the summer’s hottest: sunscreen is actually bad for you. At least, so say a number of TikTok users. News sites in the United States have been reporting that misinformation about sunscreen is spreading profusely on the bite-size video platform and
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July 8, 2024 On Saturday 6 July, an image showing what appeared to be a digger demolishing rainbow-coloured steps in a seemingly suburban street while a man stood watching a few metres away, was widely shared on Facebook. Amongst those who shared it was a self-proclaimed ‘personal blog’ page called ‘This is Malta’, which shared
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July 8, 2024 Shocking new revelations into a Steward-funded campaign orchestrated to smear former Health Minister Chris Fearne led inaccurate claims over whether this absolved Fearne of his ongoing legal troubles linked to a concession awarding three of Malta’s public hospitals to a private consortium. The deal was later taken over by US healthcare giant
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“The same old climate change candy”, said this Facebook post on June 22, 2024 which has since been shared more than 1,500 times. The post, with the hashtag “#This day in 1965”, includes a screenshot of an old newspaper article headlined “Temperature in Larissa 45.4 in the shade”.
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Robert Abela alluded to the case when replying to questions on Monday
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The Home Owners Association made the claim last week
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