{"id":55750,"date":"2024-05-06T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55750"},"modified":"2024-05-08T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:26:35","slug":"the-reaction-of-the-fact-checkers-to-the-sanchez-governments-hoax-about-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/06\/the-reaction-of-the-fact-checkers-to-the-sanchez-governments-hoax-about-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"The reaction of the 'fact-checkers' to the S\u00e1nchez government's hoax about the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I spoke here about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/03\/the-truth-about-the-hoax-that-says-that-the-un-rejects-the-spanish-concord-laws\/\">the hoax launched by the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds<\/a> stating that the UN rejects the concord laws of PP and Vox.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/03\/the-truth-about-the-hoax-that-says-that-the-un-rejects-the-spanish-concord-laws\/\">The truth about the hoax that says that the UN rejects the Spanish concord laws<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/05\/pedro-sanchez-imitates-a-measure-of-the-putin-regime-to-limit-press-freedom\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez imitates a measure of the Putin regime to limit press freedom<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This hoax is no longer attributable exclusively to the PRISA Group newspaper. On Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/serviciosdeprensa\/notasprensa\/politica-territorial-memoria-democratica\/paginas\/2024\/030524-torres-onu-aval-memoria-democratica.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the website of La Moncloa, the presidency of the Spanish government, spread that hoax<\/a>, collecting statements from the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, \u00c1ngel V\u00edctor Torres, in those who criticized those laws stating that <em>\"it is not from the Government of Spain nor do I say it, but rather the UN says it.\"<\/em> Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/avtorresp\/status\/1787101616769806340\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torres used a visit to the Mathausen concentration camp to spread that hoax again<\/a>, a low behavior on the part of a minister.<\/p>\n<p>As they say now, you are very young, but I remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europapress.es\/portaltic\/socialmedia\/noticia-son-verificadores-informacion-hacen-mensajes-difunden-whatsapp-20200414090105.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four years ago there were entities that were dedicated to verifying news on social networks<\/a>, pointing out the hoaxes that were spread through them. <strong>In Spain there were and still are three fact-checkers: Maldita.es, Newtral and Efe Verifica<\/strong>, the latter dependent on the Efe agency, which is owned by the government of Spain, that is, the same government that is disseminating that hoax about the UN.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of publishing these lines, <a href=\"https:\/\/verifica.efe.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Efe Verifica<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/maldita.es\/tag\/onu\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maldita.es<\/a> <strong>they haven't said anything about that hoax<\/strong>. Three days have already passed, but from what it seems, the fact that the government is spreading a hoax at the highest level does not seem to be a reason to say anything about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtral.es\/relatores-onu-leyes-concordia-pp-vox\/20240503\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newtral has published a news item about it <\/a>, <strong>affirming the same thing I pointed out here on Friday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>From the UN they explain to Newtral.es that \u201cthe rapporteurs are independent experts who make this type of reports voluntarily\u201d, so <strong>this type of documents \u201cdo not express a position\u201d of the United Nations.<\/strong> \u201cThen the reports are taken into account and may reach other bodies, but <strong>they are not a resolution\u201d of the international organization, they point out.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, <strong>Newtral knows that the government is being untrue<\/strong> when it attributes this rejection of the concordia laws to the UN, but unlike what it does when it comes to the opposition, <strong>This fact-checking entity avoids talking about hoaxes and omits any criticism of the government for affirming this falsehood.<\/strong> This should come as no surprise to anyone, considering that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtral.es\/quienes-somos\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the founder and sole shareholder of Newtral is Ana Pastor<\/a>, <strong>a journalist known for her affinity towards the left-wing<\/strong>. This should lead us to ask ourselves a very simple question about this type of entities: <strong>who verifies the verifiers and who ensures that their work is not biased?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lamoncloa.gob.es\/multimedia\/galeriasfotograficas\/presidente\/Paginas\/2018\/160918presi_lasexta.aspx?galf1er=0&galf2r=3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>. Ana Pastor, director of Newtral, with Pedro S\u00e1nchez during a visit to the La Moncloa palace for an interview on September 16, 2018.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I spoke here about the hoax launched by the socialist newspaper El Pa\u00eds stating that the UN rejects the concord laws of PP and Vox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10720],"tags":[8420,17819,18057,21823,100,17198,12435,13031,693,2721,10473],"class_list":["post-55750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-ana-pastor-garcia","tag-angel-victor-torres","tag-efe-agency","tag-efe-verifica","tag-el-pais","tag-hoaxes","tag-maldita-es","tag-newtral","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}