Manifesto magic
Every time Minister Carmelo Abela needs people to focus
Elizabeth De Gaetano
3 days ago
Keeping things in check #2
We at The Shift were not exaggerating when we
Elizabeth De Gaetano
6 days ago
Disinformation Watch: amplifying the absurd
It has been all of two weeks since the
Elizabeth De Gaetano
1 month ago
Reporters Without Borders files lawsuit accusing Facebook of ‘deceptive commercial practices’
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has taken legal action against
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
24 March 2021
Keith Schembri’s disinformation
There was already a lot to unpack in Keith
Elizabeth De Gaetano
22 March 2021
New familiar patterns
The timing of the Conference for National Unity, held
Elizabeth De Gaetano
3 March 2021
How state broadcaster, party-owned media shape Malta’s COVID-19 narrative
Malta’s unique media landscape has equipped the government with
Elizabeth De Gaetano
5 February 2021
Disinformation watch: back to basics
Having failed to silence their most vocal critic, Russian
Elizabeth De Gaetano
1 February 2021
Disinformation hit list 2020
The disinformation that accompanied the pandemic was used in
Elizabeth De Gaetano
30 December 2020
The wrong of rudeness: Mercieca’s meanness
Simon Mercieca, University history lecturer, publicly accused Matthew Caruana
Kevin Cassar
23 December 2020
Data for dirty tricks
We were doing so well. When Malta first introduced
Elizabeth De Gaetano
25 August 2020
Stock replies bingo 
When former prime minister Joseph Muscat was asked to
Elizabeth De Gaetano
19 July 2020
Government boasts of ‘biggest fuel price fall ever recorded’ despite EU disparity
The government was quick to promote its new measure
Joanna Demarco
11 June 2020
Věra Jourová stresses importance of journalism amid COVID-19 ‘infodemic’
The unprecedented “infodemic” that emerged during the pandemic has
Joanna Demarco
9 June 2020
Wash, rinse, repeat
When The Shift started monitoring government disinformation tactics in
Elizabeth De Gaetano
17 May 2020
The migration issue: the complexities left out of Bartolo’s pie charts
Days after the closure of Malta’s ports resulted in
Joanna Demarco
12 May 2020
Coronavirus: understanding fact from fiction
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) together with a number
Elizabeth De Gaetano
15 April 2020
Keith Schembri has a fake newspaper
We each respond to a raging pandemic in our
Ryan Murdock
10 April 2020
Keeping our eyes on the ball: human rights in the time of COVID-19
Guest op-ed from IFEX Executive Director, Annie Game. For
The Shift Team
8 April 2020
Twitter removes 20,000 fake accounts linked to government propaganda
On the 2 April, Twitter announced via one of
Elizabeth De Gaetano
4 April 2020
Reporters Without Borders to track coronavirus disinformation
International press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched
Joanna Demarco
31 March 2020
Disinformation: consolation and catastrophe during coronavirus
As COVID-19 headlines continue to dominate news cycles, pro-Kremlin
Elizabeth De Gaetano
30 March 2020
The ugly behind the pretty: How disinformation is thriving on Instagram
The creation and spread of false or deliberately misleading
Elizabeth De Gaetano
23 March 2020
When conspiracy theories boom(erang)
Uncertainty is almost always unsettling and trying to keep
Elizabeth De Gaetano
10 March 2020
The weaponisation of information
Glenn Bedingfield’s testimony before the public inquiry Board today
Caroline Muscat
21 February 2020
Public Inquiry Board warns PM’s staff: ‘We’re troubled by your lack of credibility’
The credibility of Nigel Vella, the Deputy Head of
The Shift Team
19 February 2020
State-sponsored trolling continued even after Caruana Galizia’s death
Malta was one of the few countries where State-sponsored
Joanna Demarco
12 February 2020
‘Our democracy will be lost if we are indifferent’ – Věra Jourová
The lack of transparency in political advertising and the
Juan Ameen
4 February 2020
Online misinformation growing through Facebook & Whatsapp
The spread of misinformation often takes place via groups
Juan Ameen
6 January 2020
Potholes and the government meme machine
A hole is not a hole in the upside-down
Ryan Murdock
15 November 2019