Fact-check Malta: Why were mature trees uprooted in Żabbar?
Works in Triq il-Kunsill tal-Ewropa prompted uproar. What actually happened?
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Fact-check Malta: How do grocery prices in Malta compare to Sicily and Cyprus?
The problem appears to be local wages, more than the actual prices.
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Article misconstrues archaeological discovery in Spain as remnants of ‘Atlantis’
May 12, 2023 The recent discovery of 5th-century BC reliefs depicting human faces at an archaeological site in southwest Spain marked a breakthrough in historians’ understanding of the ancient Iberian civilization of Tartessos. But a Greek article shared hundreds of times online has warped the discovery into myth, claiming that these sculptures are “the first
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Fact-check Malta: Was this dog found injured in Sliema?
A Facebook post about a wounded dog is the latest in a series of hoax posts
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Bill Gates did not say in this interview that Covid vaccines were ‘dangerous’
April 27, 2023 In a 2022 video interview, Bill Gates praised Covid-19 vaccines while admitting they were not perfect in entirely blocking the transmission of the virus and in the limited duration of their effect. A Greek website shared a clip from this video in April 2023 with the false claim that it showed him
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Fact-check Malta: Meet Xandru Borg, a social reformer invented by ChatGPT
AI fabricated references to back up its claims
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Fact-check Malta: Was this girl found abandoned in Sliema?
A Facebook post making this claim went viral on Thursday
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Fact-check: Were Bolt and Wolt hacked?
The false rumour was shared across social media
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Magnetic African dust is not proof of chemtrails
April 17, 2023 Contrary to unfounded claims circulating on social media, the magnetic qualities of African dust are not proof of the existence of chemtrails. Dust from the Sahara desert, which is often detected in Greece and elsewhere in southern European, naturally contains minerals with magnetic qualities. But these magnetic properties are not proof that
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Fact-check: Is crime really on the decline?
Official data showing the lowest crime rate since 2004 was met with incredulity
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