Fact-check Malta: Scam social posts showing injured old man go viral
The posts show 91-year-old Mexican man who was attacked on a Los Angeles street
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This video shows a train carriage in Madrid in 2023, not the new metro in Thessaloniki
“First day of operation of Thessaloniki Metro!!! What we paid again!!” read this Facebook post from November 30, 2024, since shared more than 700 times. The post included a video showing water running from the roof into what appears to be a metro train carriage.
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Fact check Malta: Former politician peddles misinformation about political murders
November 20, 2024 A recently-resurfaced video clip shows a former Labour Party minister perpetuating misinformation about political murders in Malta. Joe Debono Grech, once a Labour minister in the 1980s and 1990s, was a guest on ‘Madwar Mejda’ (‘Around the Table’), a television programme on ONE, the station owned by Malta’s ruling Labour Party. During
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Fact-check Malta: Did Amanda Muscat receive just €16,000 more than a secretary?
Robert Abela made the claim in an interview, but that figure doesn’t add up
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Fact-check Malta: Did Malta under PN have the worst unemployment rate in Europe?
Malta also had one of the worst fiscal deficits in Europe, Jonathan Attard claimed
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Fact-check Malta: does a new budget measure give all foreigners a yearly €550 payout?
Several social media posts saying this have stoked outrage
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Fact-check Malta: Scam Facebook post about lost three-year-old boy makes it to Malta
November 13, 2024 A false story about a lost child, which was called out as a scam by an American TV station earlier this year, has made it to Malta. The post, which carries two identical photos of a young boy, claims the three-year-old was found in Malta and has been taken to a Police
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Fact-check Malta: National water service provider edits photo to replace opposition MP with a random man
One minute Ryan Callus was in the photo. The next, he was gone
No, ‘weather modification vessels’ were not responsible for Valencia’s deadly floods
“The mysterious ship that generates electricity happened to be in Spain a few days ago. #HAARP”, read one Facebook post from November 3, 2024, shared over 7,200 times since. It shared a video of a cargo ship with a dozen smokestacks and high-voltage pylons on its deck.
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Fact-check Malta: Did the budget increase Malta’s retirement age
November 7, 2024 A seemingly innocuous measure buried in the budget held on 28 October raised an unexpected furore when Times of Malta flagged that the required years of social security contributions to qualify for a full pension will rise from 41 years to 42 for people born after 1976. The measure quickly became the
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