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‘Fueling sexism’: AI ‘bikini interview’ videos flood internet

September 12, 2025 The videos are strikingly lifelike, featuring bikini-clad women conducting street interviews and eliciting lewd comments — but they are entirely fake, generated by AI tools increasingly used to flood social media with sexist content. Such AI slop — mass-produced content created by cheap artificial intelligence tools that turn simple text prompts into […]

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Fact-check: Are WHO-advised palliative care medicines unavailable in Malta? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Are WHO-advised palliative care medicines unavailable in Malta?

Fact Check, Health, Society

Claims about just 10% of WHO-approved medicines being available not backed by fact

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Fact-check: How much did Manoel Island cost MIDI? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: How much did MIDI pay for Manoel Island?

Environment, Fact Check, Politics, Society

The concession agreement signed in 2000 sheds light on the project’s finances

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Fact-check: Did a PN delegation to China really never discuss Huawei? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Did a PN delegation to China really never discuss Huawei?

Fact Check, Politics

A PN statement about the visit raised more questions than it answered

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Fact-check Malta: Is MEP Daniel Attard facing charges of bribery?

Fact Check, Politics

May 27, 2025 The news that Labour MEP Daniel Attard is embroiled in a bribery investigation came as a bolt from the blue, with Attard issuing a statement on Monday 19 May, describing his attendance at a football match in the presence of a Huawei lobbyist. The matter raised several questions over Attard’s future and the extent

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Fact-check Malta: What happened at the Għargħur local council?

Fact Check, Politics

May 27, 2025 The local council of the sleepy town of Għargħur has hit the front pages in recent weeks, after councillors ousted the mayor, flipping the council’s previous PN majority to a PL-led one. The turmoil led to protests and earnest appeals for new elections, with several people across social media painting conflicting pictures

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What does an impact assessment into the new Magħtab incinerator say? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: What does an impact assessment into the new Magħtab incinerator say?

Environment, Fact Check, Health, Politics, Society

Public outcry on incinerator and conflicting claims over its impact

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Fact-check: Does Pope Leo XIV have Maltese ancestry? - Featured image

Fact-check Malta: Does Pope Leo XIV have Maltese ancestry?

Fact Check, Society

A 1910 census listed his great-grandfather as Maltese… but the family may have cited Maltese ancestry to pass as white

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Old Greek ID cards will no longer be valid after August 2026

Fact Check, Politics, Society

Amid fierce debate over the new ID cards, a misleading claim began circulating on Greek social media in late April 2025, regarding the validity of the old cards.

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