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Fact-check Malta: Do smear campaign reports clear Chris Fearne?

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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Fact-check Malta: Was a butcher caught killing sick dogs and cats and selling them as sausage meat?

Fact Check, Health, Society, Uncategorized

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

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Fact-check: Would Malta have had to sell the hospitals under a bankrupt Steward? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Would Malta have had to sell the hospitals under a bankrupt Steward?

Economy, Fact Check, Health, Politics

News of Steward’s bankruptcy led some to speculate that the hospitals would have been up for sale

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Fact-check: Are 90% of pregnancies in which Down syndrome is detected aborted? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Are 90% of pregnancies in which Down syndrome is detected aborted?

Fact Check, Health

Doctors for Life made the claim in a letter to MEP Cyrus Engerer

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Fact-check: Does a new drug reform mean that you can carry 500 ecstasy pills? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Does a new drug reform mean that you can carry 500 ecstasy pills?

Fact Check, Health, Politics, Society

Many have claimed that drug traffickers will be able to get away with carrying more drugs for personal use

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Fact-check: Pandemic treaty will hand WHO ‘nearly unlimited powers’ - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Pandemic treaty will hand WHO ‘nearly unlimited powers’

Fact Check, Health, Politics

The proposed treaty actually highlights countries’ sovereignty over their healthcare policies

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Fact-check: Did police investigate the Stephen Spiteri false certificate case? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Did police investigate the Stephen Spiteri false certificate case?

Fact Check, Health, Politics, Society

PL MP Silvio Grixti asked why Spiteri was not investigated in a flurry of Facebook posts in recent weeks

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Fact-check: Petition warns that WHO will assume power over Malta’s constitution - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Petition warns that WHO will assume power over Malta’s constitution

COVID-19, Fact Check, Health, Politics

The petition says that the government has until the end of the month to avoid this

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Fact-check: What are international nurse-to-patient ratio recommendations? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: What are international nurse-to-patient ratio recommendations?

Fact Check, Health, Politics

Authorities say they’re following international recommendations. But which recommendations are they talking about?

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Fact-check: How has energy infrastructure coped around the Mediterranean? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: How has energy infrastructure coped around the Mediterranean?

Environment, Fact Check, Health, Politics

Malta’s infrastructure has been brought to its knees. Have other countries fared better?

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