Clara Jiménez Cruz

Madrid

Co-founder and CEO at Maldita.es

Periodista. CEO en @maldita y cofundadora en @factchequeado. Chair de @eurofactcheck y @factchecknet Advisory Board. Los findes con @juliaenlaonda

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Articles

What happens if you “get rid” of fact-checking?

Feb 7, 2025 | factcheckhub.com | Clara Jiménez Cruz |Opeyemi Kehinde

Joel Kaplan, Zuckerberg’s second in command at Meta, has recently said that community notes will launch “elsewhere” in 2026, including the EU. This is the first time Meta all but acknowledges they will be ending their collaboration with fact-checkers in the near future around the world, after Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of “getting rid” of fact-checkers in the US and his accusations of censorship, which had a devastating first effect: massive harassment to fact-checkers worldwide.
Possible risks if EU does not change course of Media Freedom Act

Jun 29, 2023 | euractiv.com | Clara Jiménez Cruz

The idea that digital platforms can only moderate illegal content under national law is a grave mistake and a gift to those running disinformation campaigns, writes Clara Jiménez Cruz. Clara Jiménez Cruz is the chair of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network. The European Union institutions are readying the first European Media Freedom Act (EMFA).