Fact-check Malta: Driving tests racket – were customer care units simply ‘doing their job’?
Robert Abela said driving test racket chats show officials are doing their job
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Fact-check Malta: Malta’s construction boom in numbers
Census figures reveal how Malta’s towns have changed over the past 10 years
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Fact-check Malta: What are international nurse-to-patient ratio recommendations?
Authorities say they’re following international recommendations. But which recommendations are they talking about?
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Fact-check Malta: Do e-scooters reduce traffic congestion?
E-scooter companies say this is the case, but many are sceptical
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Fact-check Malta: Are recent TikTok videos of Lilu King genuine?
The videos were shared on TikTok and several Facebook groups throughout August
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Greek wildfires spur misinformation against migrants
Soon after the first fires broke out on August 19 around the city of Alexandroupoli — near a well-trodden route for migrants entering Europe from Turkey — pictures and videos were posted on social media claiming to show makeshift arson devices created by migrants crossing the border.
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Fact-check Malta: Does Malta have the highest population density in Europe?
How does Malta compare to cities around the continent?
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Fact-check Malta: Woman forced to film hostage-style video in blackmail scam
Police: Victims scammed €36,600 in cryptocurrency
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Fact-check Malta: Do foreigners outnumber Maltese?
A series of Facebook posts say that a recent study revealed this to be the case
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ERT did not cut funding for a Yorgos Avgeropoulos documentary in 2023; the claim is from 2019
July 31, 2023 Posts on social media in July 2023 falsely claimed that Greek public broadcaster ERT had pulled funding for a hard-hitting political and social documentary following the re-election of the centre-right New Democracy in June 2023. Replicating verbatim text that circulated in 2019 about the film “AGORA II: Chained”, the posts presented this