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Some Britons would not pay energy bills

Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 29/09/2022 The portal Zurnal24.si published on 18 September an article whose headline stated that bills for October will be significantly higher and that 200,000 households will not pay them. The subheading added that households have been threatening for a while to engage in civil disobedience by refusing to […]

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Global temperatures have been rising for the past 17 years

Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 19/09/2022 In an interview for the portal Demokiacija.si on 26 August, Rafael Mihalich, a tenured professor and head of the Laboratory for Electric Power Supply at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, was asked why he thought the concept of a zero-carbon society was nonsense. “The […]

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Boston Children’s Hospital does not offer hysterectomies for children

Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 29/08/2022 The headline of an article published on the Nova24tv.si portal on 13 August claimed that Boston Children’s Hospital was offering hysterectomies for children. The portal reported that the hospital performs surgeries on the chest with parental consent on children aged 15, whereas other types of surgery are […]

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There is no evidence that teaching LGBTQ affects sexual orientation

Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 22/08/2022 Ales Primc, the former head of the demographics department at the now defunct Government Office for Demography and president of the non-parliamentary party Voice of Children and Family, told Demokracija in an interview released online on 6 August that many children – “some data suggest up to […]

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Journalists’ criticism of the public broadcaster’s leadership is not hate speech

Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 11/09/2022 Andrej Grah Whatmough, the director general of public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, addressed a public letter to President Borut Pahor and Human Rights Ombudsman Peter Svetina on 31 August urging them to condemn the hate speech that he believes some media resort to as a means of humiliating […]

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US-owned firms did not buy a third of arable land in Ukraine

Original article (in Slovenian) was published on 10/08/2022 The portal of the Slovenian weekly Kmečki Glas published on 3 August a piece headlined Americans Bought a Third of Land Under Cultivation in Ukraine, which was retracted the same day. The article claimed that since last year, when a new law on the sale of farmland […]