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Fact-check Malta: Did PN leader Alex Borg win more votes than Robert Abela and all previous PN leaders?
June 17, 2026
June 17, 2026 Despite his party’s defeat in Malta’s May ...
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Fact-check Malta: Did the government borrow €1 billion in the month leading to the election campaign?
June 17, 2026
June 17, 2026 A controversial claim that Malta borrowed €1billion ...
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Fact-check Malta: What are PN’s renewable energy targets?
June 16, 2026
June 16, 2026 The Nationalist Party (PN) has pledged to ...
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Fact-check Malta: Does a promised corporate tax cut apply to dividend payments?
June 16, 2026
June 16, 2026 A Labour Party electoral pledge to slash ...
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Bananas impact some, but not all, health benefits from berries
June 16, 2026
Social media is filled with posts warning that blending bananas into smoothies with berries will negate the drinks' nutritional benefits. But those claims are based ...
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Fact-check Malta: Footage claiming to be a US missile strike in Kuwait shows an explosion in Malta
June 3, 2026
June 3, 2026 Videos of an explosion posted by pro-Iranian ...
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Climate consensus remains despite revisions to far-end emission scenarios
June 1, 2026
Recent adjustments to the most extreme scenarios included in key UN climate reports are being misrepresented across social media, including by US President Donald Trump. ...
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He said, she said, AI said: Wall Street sex scandal rivets and confounds
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026 A Wall Street banker’s explosive sexual harassment ...
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Fact-check Malta: The troll accounts using AI to influence Malta’s election race
May 6, 2026
Political troll pages have turned to AI-generated images and videos as the election campaign moves online
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Claims of ‘staged’ US press gala shooting misrepresent Fox News coverage
May 4, 2026
Social media users are misrepresenting Fox News coverage to support baseless allegations that US President Donald Trump staged the assassination attempt that disrupted a press ...
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What’s real anymore? AI warps truth of Middle East war
April 21, 2026
April 21, 2026 “Is Netanyahu real or AI?” an internet ...
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Fact-check Malta: Has the government implemented 82% of its manifesto?
April 20, 2026
With some key promises unfulfilled, government officials say this does not mean 82% of promises have been completed
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