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Fact-check Malta: Is MEP Daniel Attard facing charges of bribery?
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025 The news that Labour MEP Daniel Attard ...
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Fact-check Malta: What happened at the Għargħur local council?
May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025 The local council of the sleepy town ...
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Fact-check Malta: What does an impact assessment into the new Magħtab incinerator say?
May 26, 2025
Public outcry on incinerator and conflicting claims over its impact
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Fact-check Malta: Does Pope Leo XIV have Maltese ancestry?
May 20, 2025
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
May 19, 2025
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 ...
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Fact-check Malta: How does Malta’s assisted dying proposal compare to other countries?
May 19, 2025
More than 12 countries have euthanasia laws, but no two are identical
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Fact-check Malta: Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
May 12, 2025
May 12, 2025 On Friday 2 May, Malta woke up ...
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US anti-disinformation guardrails fall in Trump’s first 100 days
May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025 From slashed federal funding for disinformation research ...
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AI images of Pope Francis wearing pride flag resurface after his death
April 28, 2025
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 ...
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Hijacking news: Fake media sites sow Ukraine disinformation
April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025 A fake news website falsely claimed that ...
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Fact check Malta: Labour Party supporters use AI to turn civil society protest into a partisan battle
April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025 Supporters of Malta’s Labour Party are sharing ...
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Photo shows two African American men in the 1920s, not Turkish politician
April 9, 2025
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 ...
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