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 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
Fact-check Malta: Do smear campaign reports clear Chris Fearne? Read More »
June 27, 2024 Rumours that a butcher on the island of Gozo was killing sick dogs and cats and selling them to customers as sausages spread like wildfire on Friday 21 June, causing panic and disgust in equal measure. They claimed that several people had fallen sick and were admitted to hospital over the weekend
News of Steward’s bankruptcy led some to speculate that the hospitals would have been up for sale
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Doctors for Life made the claim in a letter to MEP Cyrus Engerer
Fact-check Malta: Are 90% of pregnancies in which Down syndrome is detected aborted? Read More »
Many have claimed that drug traffickers will be able to get away with carrying more drugs for personal use
Fact-check Malta: Does a new drug reform mean that you can carry 500 ecstasy pills? Read More »
The proposed treaty actually highlights countries’ sovereignty over their healthcare policies
Fact-check Malta: Pandemic treaty will hand WHO ‘nearly unlimited powers’ Read More »
PL MP Silvio Grixti asked why Spiteri was not investigated in a flurry of Facebook posts in recent weeks
Fact-check Malta: Did police investigate the Stephen Spiteri false certificate case? Read More »
The petition says that the government has until the end of the month to avoid this
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Authorities say they’re following international recommendations. But which recommendations are they talking about?
Fact-check Malta: What are international nurse-to-patient ratio recommendations? Read More »
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