Maldita.es is a non-profit foundation based in Spain that builds public trust by fighting disinformation and promoting transparency through journalism, education, technology, research and policy action.
Our work is underscored by specialised teams, cutting edge technological tools, and an extensive community of citizens who collaborate with us in the battle against disinformation.
Our mission is to provide all actors affected — from legislators and digital platforms to journalists, citizens & educators — with tools, capacities, and evidence-based content so that they can make informed decisions, and together we can foster a more resilient, accessible, and trustworthy media & information ecosystem.
Through the sections Maldito Bulo (hoaxes), Maldita Hemeroteca (archive), Maldita Ciencia (health and science), Maldito Dato (data journalism and FOIA), Maldita Tecnología (technology), Maldita Migración (migration), Maldito Feminismo (gender), Maldita Alimentación (nutrition), Maldito Clima (climate crisis) and Maldito Timo (scams) it contributes to the fight against disinformation to diverse audiences.
The organisation also works to contribute to a more fact-based public debate and to raise public awareness of disinformation and its social impact through an educational project dedicated to media literacy, Maldita Educa, the Academic Research unit and our Public Policy and Institutional Development department.
Maldita.es has positioned itself as the Spanish fact-checker of reference, its contents generates an impact at a national and international level and has been a source of information in major Spanish media outlets. In addition, Maldita.es participates in research projects funded by the European Union such as AI4TRUSTS, EU-Hybnet and Iberifier, in which the organisation works with universities and fact-checkers to develop tools and study the disinformation phenomena. Maldita.es led the consortium that created the European Code of Standards for Independent Fact-checking organisations.
Maldita´s team, made up of around 50 people, is characterised for being specialised in the different areas they work on. The organisation publishes in Spanish but when it comes to cross-border investigations or collaborations, it also publishes in English.
The organisation has a big audience on the website and the different social media channels such as Twitter-X, Instagram, Facebook, Twitch, Telegram, etc. and a big community engaged that helps us giving answers to the audience, for example, the recently launched project “La Dudoteca”, an online platform that allows the Spanish-speaking public to pose their everyday questions and guarantees accurate and reliable answers from verified experts and specialised journalists with the aim of reducing the negative effects of uncertainty and misinformation online.
Maldita´s community also sends us disinformation content they receive by our semi-automated chatbot on WhatsApp, where we send them the verified content but also newsletters and the most important articles of the day, or launch media literacy games and tips to fight disinformation
