Investigating Joseph Muscat’s online hate machine

10 minutes Read Share Facebook Linkedin Twitter The Shift Team - 14. May. 2018 Joseph Muscat repeatedly claims to stand for a positive politics: ‘We will always stand for #optimism with a #positive attitude. People outright refuse bitter, negative and tribal politics’, he tweeted last year, signing off with ‘JM #Malta’. Alongside the Prime Minister and Labour leader himself, a minimum of eight senior staff working for him are members of Facebook groups containing violent comments, including the distribution of anti-corruption activists’ personal details and calls for them to be physically attacked, sexually assaulted, and stalked.