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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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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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Fact-check Malta: How does Malta’s assisted dying proposal compare to other countries?

Fact Check, Health, Politics, Society

More than 12 countries have euthanasia laws, but no two are identical

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US anti-disinformation guardrails fall in Trump’s first 100 days

Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

May 5, 2025 From slashed federal funding for disinformation research to the closure of a key agency combating foreign influence operations, the United States has dismantled vital guardrails against falsehoods within President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. The moves could have national security implications, experts warn, granting US adversaries such as Russia and

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AI images of Pope Francis wearing pride flag resurface after his death

Fact Check, Society

Pope Francis died of a stroke on April 21, 2025, less than a month after returning home from five weeks in hospital battling double pneumonia (archived here).

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Fact check Malta: Labour Party supporters use AI to turn civil society protest into a partisan battle

Fact Check, Politics, Society, Technology, Uncategorized

April 14, 2025 Supporters of Malta’s Labour Party are sharing photorealistic AI-generated images in partisan Facebook groups that attempt to portray opposition leader Bernard Grech at a civil society protest in the capital city of Valletta. A protest was held by a number of local NGOs on 2nd April 2025 outside the parliament building in

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