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Fact-check Malta: Is MEP Daniel Attard facing charges of bribery?
May 27, 2025 The news that Labour MEP Daniel Attard ...
Fact-check Malta: What happened at the Għargħur local council?
May 27, 2025 The local council of the sleepy town ...
Fact-check Malta: What does an impact assessment into the new Magħtab incinerator say?
Public outcry on incinerator and conflicting claims over its impact
Fact-check Malta: Does Pope Leo XIV have Maltese ancestry?
A 1910 census listed his great-grandfather as Maltese... but the family may have cited Maltese ancestry to pass as white
Old Greek ID cards will no longer be valid after August 2026
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 ...
Fact-check Malta: How does Malta’s assisted dying proposal compare to other countries?
More than 12 countries have euthanasia laws, but no two are identical
Fact-check Malta: Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
May 12, 2025 On Friday 2 May, Malta woke up ...
US anti-disinformation guardrails fall in Trump’s first 100 days
May 5, 2025 From slashed federal funding for disinformation research ...
AI images of Pope Francis wearing pride flag resurface after his death
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 ...
Hijacking news: Fake media sites sow Ukraine disinformation
April 23, 2025 A fake news website falsely claimed that ...
Fact check Malta: Labour Party supporters use AI to turn civil society protest into a partisan battle
April 14, 2025 Supporters of Malta’s Labour Party are sharing ...
Photo shows two African American men in the 1920s, not Turkish politician
This X post from March 28, 2025, posted an image of two men, with the one embracing the other and implied in the caption in ...