Cazadores de Fake News

Cazadores de Fake News is an open community website from Venezuela dedicated to fact-checking information about Venezuela that is either disseminated by Venezuelans or affects them. The platform is part of the Venezuelan fact-checking coalition C-Informa and the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).

In 2023, Cazadores de Fake News received the Inter American Press Association's Award for Journalistic Excellence—alongside the C-Informa coalition— for the work "Exposed: The Disinformation Factory in Venezuela Endangers Democracy in Venezuela," and in 2026, the website received an Emmy Award for a documentary about Venezuelans held at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador.

History

The platform started to operate in 2019. During the 2021 Cuban protests, Cazadores de Fake News analyzed the #SOSCuba hashtag trend, stating that although anomalous accounts—including bots, botnets, and cyborgs—participated generating spam, the trend started to be promoted organically, beginning with Cubans on the island who, from July 11 onwards, were supported by users from various countries in the Americas and Europe. Following the publication of the report, the Cuban government blocked Cazadores de Fake News in the country.

On July 4, 2024, the Venezuelan monitoring portal VESinFiltro reported and denounced the blocking of the Cazadores de Fake News website in Venezuela by the state-owned operator CANTV and the private operators Movistar, Digitel, and Inter, as well as again in September 2026

References

  1. ↑ IFCN (20 May 2026). "Cazadores de Fake News". International Fact-Checking Network. Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ Coalición Informativa (13 March 2023). "Al descubierto: la Fábrica de Desinformación en Instagram que amenaza a la democracia en Venezuela" [Exposed: The Instagram Disinformation Factory Threatening Democracy in Venezuela]. Medianálisis (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ Efecto Cocuyo Team (14 September 2023). "C-Informa gana Premio de Excelencia Periodística de la SIP en Periodismo de Datos" [C-Informa wins IAPA Award for Journalistic Excellence in Data Journalism.]. Efecto Cocuyo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ ProPublica staff (7 April 2026). "News and Documentary Emmy Awards, Two Nominations". ProPublica. Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ Minero, Elizabeth (30 May 2026). "El guatemalteco Gerardo del Valle conquistó un premio Emmy por el documental "Sobreviviendo al CECOT"" [Guatemalan Gerardo del Valle won an Emmy Award for the documentary "Surviving CECOT."]. Infobae. Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ Cazadores de Fake News Team (19 August 2021). "#SOSCuba: radiografía de una protesta digital impulsada por humanos" [#SOSCuba: An anatomy of a human-driven digital protest]. Cibercuba (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ ADNCuba staff (19 August 2021). ""Régimen miente": desmontan fake news sobre #SOSCUBA" ["The regime lies": fake news about #SOSCUBA debunked]. ADNCuba. Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ↑ Rodríguez Rosas, Ronny (4 July 2024). "Cazadores de Fake News ante bloqueo de su sitio web: Es un atentado a la libertad de expresión" [Cazadores de Fake News on the blocking of their website: It is an attack on freedom of expression.]. Efecto Cocuyo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ↑ Redacción Venezuela (4 September 2026). "Bloquean la página web del Observatorio Venezolano de Fake News". EVTV. Retrieved 18 September 2026.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)