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‘Narrative war’: disinformation surges as conflict roils Middle East

Middle East, Politics, Society, Technology

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

Fact Check, Society, Technology

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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AI tools fabricate Epstein images ‘in seconds,’ study says

Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

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

Society, Technology

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: People showing up in Naxxar to collect dogs that never existed

Fact Check, Society

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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Fact-check Malta: How much are political parties declaring in donations?

Fact Check, Politics

January 23, 2026 Party financing in Malta came under the spotlight in the run-up to Christmas, as opposition party PN belatedly submitted the party’s financial reports for 2021 to 2024 on December 15, leading to conflicting claims from acolytes of both of the country’s main political parties over the other’s sources of wealth and donors.

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