‘My Story Still Stands,’ Manuel Delia Says As Imposter Website Pops Up With Fake Apology
Independent Maltese journalist Manuel Delia has confirmed that a press release and an article where he apologises for his work and says he is on medication is fake and nothing more than the latest attack on him.
This comes after he published an article published claiming that former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had picked former Nationalist Party Leader Adrian Delia as one of the lawyers working on the newly formed Malta Premier League.
After the claims, Adrian Delia publicly hit back, denying them and saying that Manuel should have verified his information, starting with a strong “truth be told my arse”.
In a subsequent article, Manuel Delia then supported his claims, attaching a screenshot of a Whatsapp message apparently sent by Joseph Muscat showing Adrian Delia’s name on a list of suggested people.
Shortly after the publication of this article, Lovin Malta received a questionable press statement from what initially appeared to be Manuel Delia himself.
Spoof email sent to journalists from [email protected]
Within the fake press statement, some sort of apology is outlined, saying “I want to apologise now, that I was obviously wrong”.
“I would therefore like to offer my sincere apologies to Adrian Delia for this article. As my regular readers know, I’m on medication and forgot to take it this morning. This shows that Adrian Delia is not a regular reader of my blog, then he would have known this,” the spoof statement reads.
However, the email address did not match up with Delia’s, and upon clicking the link, one is redirected to emanuel-delia.com, as opposed to manueldelia.com, the legitimate site.
Lovin Malta reached out to Manuel Delia, who confirmed that he still stands by his original story, and said that he was not even aware of the latest act of spoofing.
“I can say that it’s a spoof, my story stands. Adrian Delia was too quick to call me a liar,” Delia told Lovin Malta.
This is far from the first time that Manuel Delia has been targeted by internet trolls, with his website similarly being spoofed before.
What do you make of this nasty attempt to impersonate Manuel Delia?
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