Spain
Falsehoods about the 2020 election run rampant on the world stage
Fact-checkers outside the United States were not spared the onslaught of both mis- and disinformation…
November 17, 2020
Spanish fact-checkers targeted after WhatsApp limits forwarding
Factually is a newsletter about fact-checking and accountability journalism, from Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network & the American Press…
April 16, 2020
Is it a Marvel film or a fact-checking newsroom? How Maldita.es uses its readers’ ‘superpowers’
In Spain, Maldito Bulo’s mission is clear: to answer reader questions. So when they sent…
October 23, 2019
Drinking seawater is bad for you, and other horror stories from the front lines of science fact-checking
Get this: One of Maldita’s most-read and most controversial fact checks this summer weighed the…
October 15, 2019
Fact-checking another national campaign only six months later: Maldita.es in election mode
Deja vu is one way of putting it. Spain is holding national elections Nov. 10,…
October 9, 2019
Online hoaxes about the Catalan referendum concentrated on police action in Barcelona
It wasn’t long after Catalonia voted for independence that fake news and online hoaxes started…
October 4, 2017