Bertrand Borg

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[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

https://t.co/LsVpXiQ8TS

Sergey Lavrov's spokesperson Maria Zakharova was heading to Malta to attend an OSCE ministerial summit.

Then three EU member states intervened.

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Social media algorithms shape our world, because they determine what we see and what remains hidden.

But we have no knowledge of them and even less control over them. At what point will they be made accountable to the societies they influence?

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

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Facebook is penalising @TheTimesofMalta page for sharing news about Gaza and Lebanon, and there's nothing we can do about it.

It's gotten so bad, we've been forced to self-censor.

[Aric Toler @AricToler]

So, Google is killing its cache (which was amazingly useful), and replacing it with a third-party solution of linking to the Internet Archive. I really hope the Internet Archive is being paid -- and paid a lot -- for this.

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

They promised state-of-the-art healthcare. But they were the only winners.

This is how the Vitals-Steward deal for Malta hospitals moved public money into private pockets.

https://t.co/sZWSopv5Zo

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Shaukat Ali was technically just a 'senior consultant' to the company running three public hospitals in Malta.

But a €100k-a-month contract and his many other financial ties to the Vitals-Steward concession suggest he was a bit more than that.

https://t.co/r92ShLIOwC

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

The original Maltese version is just as bad

https://t.co/DBwGHOpbLn

[Jacob Borg @BorgJake]

The national broadcaster manages to cobble together an entire article without any proper context about the hospitals inquiry

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Image of the day.

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Perhaps the most intriguing part of this story is the Education Ministry's justification of this being in 'the public interest'.

https://t.co/o601ut8C4Z

[Times of Malta @TheTimesofMalta]

Mould on walls. Patient records on desks.

St Luke's Hospital was meant to be turned into a 'state of the art' facility. Instead, it lies abandoned.

Read more about our probe with @OCCRP and @TheShiftNews into the hospitals deal

👉 https://t.co/AJZjdJc65v

[Times of Malta @TheTimesofMalta]

The hospitals deal, x-rayed.

Out on Wednesday morning, in collaboration with @OCCRP and @TheShiftNews

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Proud of our newsroom team at @TheTimesofMalta!

https://t.co/EEkLXWFnIN

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

A key problem with Malta's existing FOI law: it costs the govt nothing to refuse requests using nonsense excuses.

Taxpayer-funded bodies that go out of their way to obscure information should face consequences for doing so.

[Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation @daphnefdtn]

Malta Film Commission ordered to hand over copies of invoices for David Walliams' hosting the awards night. Allocated budget for Malta Film Awards was €400,000, but Malta Film Week cost some €1.3 million & expenditure's not disclosed. /2

#transparency

https://t.co/6EUc7JewBr

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

At best, incompetence. At worst, malevolence. Both are inexcusable.

[Times of Malta @TheTimesofMalta]

Yorgen Fenech’s lawyers cleared of bribing journalist on technicality https://t.co/49UJPNZJTc

[Sebastian Tanti Burlò @Tanti_Burlo]

Four years on and yet Daphne's voice grows ever louder.
Marking four years since they murdered journalist #DaphneCaruanaGalizia for shining a light on the truth.
🌿✒️✊

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Interesting to see how even ONE readers seem to have had enough of these sorts of smear tactics.

[Times of Malta @TheTimesofMalta]

Why we could not accept Viktor Orbán’s advert https://t.co/J0gh3C8NlB

[Ivan Martin @IvanMartin89]

No wonder some are hoping to see @TheTimesofMalta shut down.

Exclusive by @BorgJake & @StephenGrey. https://t.co/fjCPF11C6s

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

At @TheTimesofMalta, editors are not involved in management decisions, and managers are not involved in editorial ones.

That's what sets us apart from other news organisations in #Malta.

https://t.co/uKHjeKYZrf

[Bertrand Borg @bertrandborg]

Tonight's international headlines about the arrest of @keithaschembri will be more damaging to Malta's reputation than any speech any politician will ever make