Factchequeado, a nonpartisan nonprofit news organization devoted to closing the Spanish-language information gap for the more than 68 million Latinos living in the United States, is now working with TikTok through 2026 to analyze and shed light on misinformation that affects the Spanish-speaking market in the country. The partnership is rooted in a straightforward but increasingly urgent idea: the same digital spaces where hundreds of thousands of Latino users, immigrants, and Spanish-dominant families spend their time have also become places where viral falsehoods, deceptive narratives, and misleading content can circulate quickly, and often with fewer countermeasures than English-language content receives. For Factchequeado, this collaboration is not simply a contract or an awareness campaign; it is a systematic continuation of its core mission to expand access to reliable, verified information and to strengthen the entire Spanish-language information ecosystem, particularly at a time when misinformation has grown more sophisticated, more algorithmic, and more culturally embedded. By partnering directly with TikTok, Factchequeado is placed at the center of a major online environment, working not from the outside but from inside one of the most influential social video platforms in the world. The work is intended to provide real-time, evidence-based analysis of the false and misleading content that circulates in Spanish, with a special focus on narratives that can cause tangible harm to Latino communities, whether in health decisions, civic participation, economic opportunity, or trust in institutions.
The concrete scope of the collaboration is outlined around journalistic duty and strategic data intelligence. Drawing on careful best practices and Fakedacheado’s experience monitoring and evaluating misinformation narratives, the project involves producing trend reports and analyses addressed specifically to the way false content spreads in Spanish-language spaces. That means looking beyond individual fact-checking cases and refusing to treat Spanish-language misinformation as simply a translation of English-language content; instead, the work focuses on the particular origins, adaptation and circulation of false claims within Latino communities, where context matters a great deal. It is designed to detect the trajectories of viral claims, the language used in misleading videos, the emotional or identity-based cues that can make misinformation believable, and the subtle changes that can occur when a claim travels between different Spanish dialects or from one social platform to another. Particular attention is given to narratives that might have a direct impact on Latino users in the United States, including claims about communities and health, financial scams and migration. By systematizing these insights, the collaboration allows both TikTok and the broader civic media field to see not just what the false story is, but why it is spreading, how it changes over time, who is likely to believe it or share it, and what kind of intervention can genuinely disrupt the harms.
For Factchequeado, the purpose of the project is to contribute to a deeper and more robust understanding of a public information environment that is changing more quickly than traditional media can usually follow. It is not enough to produce a correction after a lie goes viral; the organization wants to provide specialized knowledge that can help journalists, media platforms, and analysts understand misinformation targeting Spanish speakers in the United States and keep pace with an ecosystem that evolves every day by new users, new settings, new trends, and changing platform design. The collaboration is specifically constructed around making this visible and useable, and it relies on Factchequeado’s own working methodology, which combines journalism, research, technology, editorial community and local knowledge. This methodology is crucial when Spanish-language misinformation in the U.S. often includes a mix of domestic and imported claims, and where rates that originate in Latin America or in other countries can be picked up by Spanish-speaking immigrants or permanent residents and take on a completely new life in an American context. The work requires both an independent editorial culture and a willingness to cooperate with platforms from a distance of independence. TikTok benefits from understanding those nuances through Factchequeado’s journalistic lens; the public benefits from having a trusted source, deeply related to Latino communities, producing data and analysis that is not made by commercial algorithms alone.
This new phase operates on a foundation built with previous initiatives, because Factchequeado’s relationship with TikTok is not beginning in 2026. During the 2024 presidential election, for example, Factchequeado participated in a special project dedicated to fighting electoral disinformation targeting the Spanish-speaking Latino community, a high-stakes period for a demographic many parties and civil society groups considered essential in crucial states. There the organization transformed its analytical gaze to the platform, observing how narratives around politicians, voting dates, early mail-in voting, and healthcare echoed into Spanish-language videos. Since November 2023, Factcheck has also produced educational video content for Spanish-speaking communities on TikTok, using the platform’s own language and format to present verified information. This approach is deliberate: instead of waiting for users to seek out a fact-checking site, Factchequeado brings high-quality journalism and reliable information directly into the same spaces where false or harmful narratives circulate. The ethos is not to first break the myth; it is to replace it with something more useful and calibratable. The continuous educational video work has given Factchequeado an understanding of what works in the format demanded by TikTok, and the 2026 collaboration allows turning that experience into patterned analysis from one of the largest Latinx groups to the platform.
The broader mission of the organization, in particular, gives the collaboration its deep motive. Factchequeado is a nonpartisan, U.S.-based nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status, and it exists to close the Spanish-language information gap for the more than 68 million Latinos living in the United States. That number is not only a demographic figure; it represents an enormous amount of daily voices that have often been underserved by mainstream newsrooms, automated fact-checking, and even national public information systems. Latino communities in the U.S. consume enormous amounts of information from many forums, including television, family and social media, and most content is in Spanish. But much of the technological infrastructure for viewing and moderation is built around English, leaving Spanish-speaking regions vulnerable to rapidly changing disinformation. Factchequeado’s mission is to expand access to verified and relevant content, and to strengthen the Spanish-language information ecosystem by fostering innovation, collaboration and community-driven solutions. In practice, that means working with rural communities, identifying gaps in daily news, understanding how people see moral or socially important information, and producing answers that people actually want to watch and share. The attention to the TikTok partnership is not simply a “good product,” but it is an extension of this broader consolidation strategy that is for the user.
With the new work, Factchequeado will also help normalize the idea that misinformation media should include the platform part of the responsibility, and that the journalistic responses to disinformation must be just as fast, just as aggressive, and just as culturally recognizable. As TikTok continues to play a huge role in how Americans discover news and express their political beliefs, Spanish-speaking communities cannot be in an afterthought. Factchequeado’s work must reflect on how TikTok provides information to Latinos and Spanish speakers: not only with reporters monitoring aesthetics, but also with descriptions of what is not, and motivating messages they believe. The partnership through 2026 is particularly important because it captures an extended period of time, not only in an election cycle; it allows Factchequeado to track longer trajectories of false narratives, measure whether responses work, and create institutional memory at a time when a misinformation is truly context-dependent. The project will contribute specialized knowledge to headlines, participants, researchers and observers elsewhere; but it will also send a message: the information gap in Spanish is a political and social concern that deserves the same attention as any English-language or mainstream disinformation. For 68 million Latinos, the right to access precise information is already a right, and the Factcheck partnership is an example of how nonpartisan information can be incorporated into the digital world metaphorically. By combining direct verification, content production, analysis, platform perspective and community trust, Factchequeado is attempting to bring a protected and resilient ecosystem into being in digital space where modern information is seen, accepted, and shared.