Fact-check Malta: Deepfake scam articles impersonate ministers after Budget Day
Scammers use familiar methods but are becoming increasingly sophisticated
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Fact-check Malta: AI-generated videos of unusual incidents on Malta’s streets
November 4, 2025 A series of AI generated videos posted in recent days showing unusual sightings in Malta’s streets have duped many people into believing they are real. The videos range from plausible events, such as photorealistic depictions of near-traffic accidents, to seemingly implausible, such as the sight of exotic animals freely roaming Malta’s streets.
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YouTube users trip over fake AI tributes to Charlie Kirk
October 21, 2025 “Thank you, Adele, it’s such a beautiful song,” reads a glowing comment beneath an emotional YouTube tribute to slain US activist Charlie Kirk. But the music is AI-generated — and bears little resemblance to the British icon’s voice. Rapidly evolving artificial intelligence tools can now create songs from simple text prompts, mimicking
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Fact-check Malta: Scammers use fatal car crash to solicit fake donations
October 21, 2025 Claim: The family of a tragic car crash are requesting donations through a Facebook page. Verdict: The Facebook page was set up by scammers, hoping to defraud people of their funds. Online scammers are soliciting donations in the name of Sandra and Kevin Bonnici, one of the two couples who died tragically in
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Trump, RFK Jr repeat autism misinformation during cabinet meeting
US President Donald Trump and his Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., doubled down on misinformation about the causes of autism during an October 9, 2025 cabinet meeting.
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Fact-check Malta: What does a proposed planning reform say about regularising illegal properties?
October 13, 2025 Claim: A proposed reform to planning laws only allows illegal developments to be regularised if a small part of the development is illegal Verdict: The proposed laws allow people to apply to have an entire illegal development regularised, not just a small part of it. A fiery debate between Michael Stivala,
What do some researchers call disinformation? Anything but disinformation
September 26, 2025 “Disinformation” is fast becoming a dirty word in the United States — a label so contentious in a hyperpolarized political climate that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether. In an era of online deception and information manipulation, the study of disinformation seems more critical than
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Fact-check Malta: Adrian Delia’s 800,000 population claim is inaccurate
Delia said studies show that Malta’s population averages 800,000 people, but no such studies appear to exist
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Fact-check Malta: What Transport Malta’s boat mooring plans for Għadira actually say
We take a look at what has changed at the popular bay after concerns were raised
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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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