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29 / 04 / 2021

Maldita.es nominated for the European journalism award, European Press Prize, for its WhatsApp service

Maldita.es has been selected by the preparatory committee of the European Press Prize as a finalist in the journalistic innovation category for the work it is doing with its WhatsApp service, a chatbot to fight disinformation that offers several services for citizens: from automatic content verification to an audio and text summary of the day’s denials to a media literacy content option. In addition, this chatbot allows the Maldita.es team to automatically store possible hoaxes that are reported by users and measure their virality.

More than 23 thousand users use this service, which has received more than 270,000 messages since its launch in June 2020. The bot is capable of analyzing images, videos, audios and texts and responds automatically to users if their content has already been verified. by the Maldita.es team of journalists.

This is the third time that Maldita.es has been selected as a finalist in this category of the prestigious European award. In 2017, Maldita Hemeroteca was nominated and in 2018, Maldito Bulo . This nomination as a finalist once again recognizes the innovative efforts of Maldita.es in pursuing its mission: developing tools to help you not get cheated.

The Maldita.es chatbot is an innovative effort to address misinformation circulating in private messaging channels, automatically stop the circulation of misinformation, improve the workflow of journalists and fact-checkers, and provide literacy tools and materials. media to citizens.

This tool, developed by the Maldita.es development team and the chatbot company Wealize and powered by the entire Maldita.es team, has been crucial to serving the Maldita.es community and providing, from journalism, a public service in the face of the increase in misinformation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

To use this service you must save this number in your contacts +34 644 229 319 or click on this link to start the conversation.

Maldita.es is selected among the finalists in the innovation category along with the projects:

  • Sisters of Europe made by the entire Sisters of Europe team and published on sistersofeurope.eu (Europe)
  • Rojava Diary by Lola García-Ajofrín (Spain), Massoud Hammid (France), Jakub Górnicki (Poland), Marcin Suder (Poland), Piotr Kliks (Poland), Tina Xu (China), published by Outriders.
  • Infertility of Lara Bonilla and Ricard Marfà (Spain), published by Diari ARA (Spain)
  • Money to Burn by Piret Reiljan (Estonia), Silvia Nortes (Spain), Catherine Joie (Belgium), Paul Toetzke (Germany), Hazel Sheffield (United Kingdom), Ties Gijzel (Netherlands), Sophie Blok (Netherlands), published by Argos, Äripäev, ERR, De Groene Amsterdammer, E&T, Investico, Público, Die ZEIT Online, The Guardian, Latvijas Radio 1 and 5W.

In June the jury will announce the prize winner.

The European Press Prize has been held in 9 editions and aims to celebrate the greatest achievements of European journalism. It is organized by seven European foundations: The Guardian Foundation, The Politiken Foundation, Agora Foundation, Media Development Investment Fund, The Jyllands-Posten Foundation, The Irish Times Trust Limited, The Thomson Reuters Foundation, Stichting Democratie & Media, Vereniging Veronica and Luminate.

In 2020, this innovation award was awarded to the work «Palmyra, the other side» carried out by journalists Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno and published in Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and El País Semanal.

In this link you can consult the finalists for distinguished reporter, investigation and opinion.

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