Disinformation Watch #26: Toxic tactics on 17 Black
The government’s assault on information intensified last week, as
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November 18, 2018 07:49
Disinformation Watch #25: Going for broke – 17 Black
Reacting to news revealing the mysterious owner of Dubai
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November 11, 2018 07:46
Disinformation Watch #25: On ‘false evidence’ and discrediting an inquiry
In his weekly column in newspaper Illum, Malta Today
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November 4, 2018 12:01
Disinformation Watch #24: Burying the truth on Egrant
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said in Court on Friday
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October 28, 2018 14:18
Disinformation Watch #23: On dirty political tricks that make headlines
The government undermines civil society by directly suppressing freedom
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October 21, 2018 06:00
Disinformation Watch #22: Chris Cardona gets his knickers in a twist
Last week’s revelations involving Economy Minister Chris Cardona triggered
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October 14, 2018 11:00
Disinformation Watch #21: On a public inquiry into a journalist’s death
On 9 August, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family called for
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October 7, 2018 08:00
Disinformation Watch #20: Joseph Muscat at the UN
Last week, Joseph Muscat delivered his annual speech to
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September 30, 2018 11:26
Disinformation Watch #19: Unfreedom of expression
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said “I will not allow
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September 22, 2018 18:46
Disinformation Watch #18: Freedom, justice and Owen Bonnici’s empty words
Following Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Government Owen
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September 16, 2018 08:57
Disinformation Watch #17: Crime, corruption and Edward Scicluna’s fantasies
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna is under fire for his
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September 9, 2018 12:20
Disinformation Watch #16: The Rule of Law – a fascist reinterpretation
The rule of law is one of those concepts
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September 2, 2018 11:30
Disinformation Watch #15: The government’s assault on civil society
In a society as divided as Malta’s, civil society
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August 26, 2018 06:47
Disinformation Watch #14: Dehumanisation – the ugliest weapon
During the Holocaust, Nazis called Jews and Roma ‘rats’
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August 19, 2018 08:10
Disinformation Watch #13: Astroturfing – manufacturing political support
Claims that a pro-government network of online trolls manufacture
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August 12, 2018 11:15
Disinformation Watch #12: The government’s use of false statistics
The Maltese government’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts published
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August 5, 2018 07:00
Disinformation Watch #11: A guide to the government’s main disinformation techniques
As the government intensifies its disinformation campaign in light
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July 29, 2018 08:27
Disinformation Watch #10: The Blame Game: Government’s reaction to a journalist’s assassination
On the day marking nine months since the assassination
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July 16, 2018 07:53
Disinformation Watch #9: Burying a controversy – Government covers up EU investigation
The investigation by the European Union’s banking regulator (EBA)
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July 8, 2018 09:16
Disinformation Watch #8: ‘Gaslighting’ – The changing lies on Rabat Road trees
The government’s original plan to upgrade the ‘Rabat Road’
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June 26, 2018 18:23
Disinformation Watch # 7: ‘Pinkwashing’ – The LGBTIQ smokescreen
LGBTIQ people in Malta are finally winning recognition and
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June 20, 2018 20:42
Disinformation Watch #6: Orwell’s nightmare – How the government controls the past to control the future
The Labour Party won the last general election with
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June 17, 2018 15:25
Disinformation Watch #5: Government surplus, information deficit
It has become impossible to talk about the economy
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June 9, 2018 10:39
Disinformation Watch #4: ‘traitors’ and ‘enemies of the state’
In a disinformation strategy as old as populism itself,
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June 3, 2018 10:13
Disinformation Watch #3: How the government manufactured Mark Montebello story to discredit Archbishop
Mark Montebello, a Dominican friar who unlike other clerics
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June 1, 2018 08:40
Disinformation Watch #2: Government, Labour Party distorting European Commission reports on Malta
Prime Minister and Labour leader Joseph Muscat claimed in
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May 30, 2018 17:49
Disinformation Watch #1: Fake Facebook account behind unsubstantiated attacks on opposition MP
The Labour Party associated daily newspaper L-Orizzont ran a
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May 27, 2018 11:54
Launching The Shift News Disinformation Watch
A decade before her assassination, Daphne Caruana Galizia wrote
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May 27, 2018 11:54

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