Led by Fundación Maldita.es as part of IBERIFIER 3, the initiative is once again teaming up with fact-checking organisations and media outlets to identify hoaxes and disseminate verified content relating to the 29 November election campaign in Spain
Comprobado is returning ahead of the general election on 29 November in Spain to strengthen the response to electoral disinformation. The initiative brings together fact-checking organisations and media outlets with the shared aim of identifying hoaxes and misleading narratives circulating during the campaign and facilitating access to verified information.
From 11 November until the elections, EFE Verifica, Maldita.es, Newtral, Verificat, RTVE Verifica, AFP and Infoveritas will be producing fact-checks on content and narratives relating to the electoral process. These materials will be available on the Comprobado website and will be distributed free of charge to more than 20 partner media organisations to ensure wider dissemination.
This collaboration enables the sharing of research, prevents duplication of effort, and helps ensure that verified content reaches a wider audience
Media organisations joining the initiative may republish the content in full on their own websites, use it as a source for producing other news stories, or adapt it for formats such as videos, social media posts or audiovisual pieces, provided they always credit Comprobado.
This partnership aims to join forces to tackle disinformation in the context of the election, drawing on the expertise and resources of fact-checking organisations to provide a coordinated response. The collaboration enables the sharing of research, prevents duplication of effort and helps ensure that verified content reaches a wider audience through media.
Building on the success of 2023
Comprobado revives a collaborative journalism initiative that began in 2019, when 16 Spanish media organisations came together to jointly fact-check political statements and content circulating on social media and WhatsApp during the general election campaign. The initiative returned in 2023 ahead of the general election on 23 July. On that occasion, the alliance comprised 24 media outlets, which received the fact-checks free of charge to publish and disseminate them.
The experience of both editions demonstrated the value of collaboration between fact-checking organisations and the media in pooling their efforts and broadening the reach of rigorous content during an electoral process.
This edition is part of IBERIFIER 3, the European project that builds on the Iberian node of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) and brings together 13 organisations from Spain and Portugal to investigate, detect and counter disinformation.
About IBERIFIER
Operational since 2021, IBERIFIER is the disinformation observatory for Spain and Portugal, a project co-funded by the European Union that integrates into the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) network. Its mission encompasses fact-checking, academic research into the phenomenon of disinformation, the analysis of social trends, media literacy, and transparency in information.
Coordinated from Pamplona by the Universidad de Navarra, IBERIFIER brings together a multidisciplinary consortium of 13 leading Iberian organisations. The initiative combines the daily reporting capacity and distribution network of the region’s two largest news agencies, Agencia EFE (Spain) and Lusa (Portugal), alongside independent fact-checking organisations (Fundación Maldita.es, Newtral, Polígrafo, Verificat, and Infoveritas) and academic and research institutions such as the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.
