Maldita.es media bias and reliability
Media Bias/Fact Check places Maldita.es in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Maldita.es biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Maldita.es in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Maldita.es left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places Maldita.es in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Maldita.es reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Maldita.es are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Maldita.es has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Maldita.es’s own report linked underneath.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has secured a fourth term as Brazil's president, defeating right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro challenged the election results, while international leaders congratulated Lula on his victory and commitment to democracy.
Maldita.es reported it asThe Supposed "Fraud" for the Extension of the Schedule in the Vote of the Elections in Brazil: in the Extra Time Was Recorded 0.03% of the votes·Damn.es - Journalism so that You Do Not Hang It (opens Maldita.es in a new tab)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that social media has become less hostile and experienced fewer bots following Ukrainian attacks on Yandex data centers. Cloudflare data shows a significant drop in YandexBot traffic after drone strikes on Yandex data centers.
The Spanish government plans to re-approve two housing decrees that were previously rejected by Congress. These decrees will be presented to the Permanent Council, a smaller parliamentary body, which the government believes it can pass without the opposition of parties like Junts.
Maldita.es reported it asThe Use of the Permanent Council to Carry Out Housing Decrees: Questions and answers·Damn.es - Journalism so They Don't Hang It (opens Maldita.es in a new tab)
Madrid's regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has advised Spaniards against using postal votes in the upcoming general election, citing potential 'adulterations'. Vox leader Santiago Abascal echoed these concerns, warning of election manipulation and calling for a 'free, clean and violence-free' vote.
Maldita.es reported it asThe Theory of Electoral Fraud in Spain Jumps Our Borders: Tweets in Four Languages Promote Abascal's Narrative About the Mail vote·Damn.es - Journalism so You Don't Get It (opens Maldita.es in a new tab)
Spain's PSOE and Sumar parties have processed an amendment to an education reform bill that aims to shield the 'Grandchildren Law' from Supreme Court suspension. Congressional lawyers warned the amendment was incongruent and potentially unconstitutional, but the parties proceeded with a majority vote.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denied his government received extraordinary warnings before the mass entry of approximately 72,000 migrants into Ceuta from Morocco. While acknowledging intelligence failures, he dismissed claims of prior specific alerts about the scale of the influx.
Maldita.es reported it asCeuta and the Disinformation and Foreign Interference Campaigns (FIMI): What We Know and What We Don't · Maldita.es - Journalism so You Don't Get Fooled (opens Maldita.es in a new tab)
Four religious communities in Ceuta organised a protest demanding greater government support to address migration pressures. The demonstration drew thousands, with organisers and police reporting different attendance figures. The city's president backed the call for unity.
Maldita.es reported it asNo, This Video Isn't of a Robbery at a Shopping Center in Ceuta in August 2026: It's Footage Recorded in London. Maldita.es - Journalism to Keep You From Being Fooled (opens Maldita.es in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckcenterCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Maldita.es.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Spain
- Official site
- maldita.es
- Seen publishing on
- maldita.es
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 10 August 2026
7 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Maldita.es is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Maldita.es: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 9 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 31 October 2026. Ratings pulled 11 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Maldita.es, also publishing from Spain, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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