Between September and November, the Dana Depression “was the quarter event that marked the panorama of misinformation in the Iberian Peninsula”
The DANA weather that occurred in Valencia, the continuity of anti-immigration narratives and adulterated pieces on US elections were the most used topics in disinformation detected in Portugal and Spain between September and November.
This information is contained in the report “Spain & Portugal Fact-Checking Brief”, an analysis by the damn, newral, verify and Verificat (Spanish) and the Portuguese Polygraph, which are part of the Iberian Media Observatory (Iberifier) ,.
Between September and November, the Dana Depression “was the quarter event that marked the panorama of misinformation in the Iberian Peninsula”.
The quarterly balance “highlights a strong presence of misinformation on parts on Dana (isolated depression at isolated levels), which occurred in Valencia, Spain, in November, the continuity of the presence of anti-immigration narratives; and adulterated pieces on the northern elections -Americas “.
In the case of Spain, “misinformation parts on Dana were detected with the titles: ‘It was a storm caused artificially’; ‘are hiding the actual number of deaths’; ‘only immigrants are looting'”.
Among the results, it was also detected narratives of “anti-immigration, accusing immigrants of being increasing crime” and “also followed the distorted narratives about elections in the United States.”
In the case of Portugal, the team of Portuguese and Spanish checks detected “pieces with false information about inequalities between immigrants and Portuguese”, such as “Portugal would be attributing to Brazilian citizens 20 thousand euros to start a business” and narratives Anti-immigration, exploring the message that the migratory wave is increasing crime in Europe.
Multiple narratives on US elections, related to the manipulation of votes and false pro-censorship allegations on social networks “are also included.
Regarding transverse misinformation in Portugal and Spain, “one of the main articles was the spread of various falsehoods about Dana.”
This misinformation began in Spain, “but echoed in Portugal and throughout Europe.”
Portugal was “one of the countries that was the most targeted by this misinformation,” one of the examples is “a video that shows people on cars on a flooded street, which, after all, concerned images recorded in Zaragoza in 2023” -in the document.
By themes, the report points to the following trends: climate change; gender; migration and racism; Celebrities, politics and elections and health.
