OKdiario – Bias and Credibility

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History

Okdiario is a Spanish digital newspaper launched in 2015 by journalist Eduardo Inda after his departure from the daily El Mundo. It brands itself as “El sitio de los inconformistas” and combines political coverage with crime, lifestyle, sports, and tabloid-style content.

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Funded by / Ownership

Okdiario is owned by Dos Mil Palabras S.L., with Eduardo Inda serving as both the outlet’s director and the parent company’s CEO. At launch, Inda invested his dismissal compensation from El Mundo, while the publisher later received a €300,000 participative loan from the Spanish public entity ENISA on favorable terms despite outstanding debts. Ongoing revenue appears to derive primarily from heavy on-site advertising, branded verticals, and high-traffic consumer content, with reader donations and memberships occasionally promoted. The outlet is headquartered in Madrid.

Analysis / Bias

Okdiario is a politically engaged, combative outlet whose editorial line combines Spanish nationalism, strong anti-left messaging, and market-friendly economic stances. Multiple analyses describe its ideology as neoliberal and ultraconservative, with regular collaboration from columnists linked to the right-wing Vox party.

News pieces frequently employ loaded language. For example, the article The Islamists of CpM now have more than 50 arrested for corruption in Melilla: “They are persecuting us, it’s racism” repeatedly labels a local party as “Islamists,” foregrounds corruption and crime, and frames the party’s response as “systematic victimhood,” with little effort to include neutral or contextualizing language.

Economic coverage, such as The government will issue another €55 billion in debt in 2026 despite collecting €350 billion in taxes stresses record tax intake, debt, and concessions to Catalonia in a way that aligns with fiscally conservative and unionist talking points, while omitting perspectives more sympathetic to the government’s fiscal choices.

Opinion content is even more extreme. In RTVE: a nest of Israelphobia and antisemitism, the public broadcaster is described as “a filthy cesspool” hijacked by “Hamas” sympathizers and an “antisemitic government,” with the Spanish left broadly portrayed as Judeophobic. This piece illustrates very strong pro-Israel, anti-left framing, frequent use of inflammatory analogies, and a tendency to equate progressive positions on Gaza with support for terrorism.

Across sections, coverage often centers on alleged corruption in parties to the left of the PSOE, Islamist or immigrant-linked actors, and perceived bias of public institutions and media, while offering relatively sympathetic or amplifying treatment to right-of-center and nationalist narratives. This pattern, combined with emotive labeling and adversarial tone, supports a Right to Far-Right bias assessment.

Okdiario publishes a mix of straight news, analysis and highly opinionated pieces. Some articles include named official sources, court documents, or ministry statements, but there is inconsistent use of primary documents and limited linking to independent corroborating sources.

The outlet has a documented record of publishing or amplifying inaccurate claims later debunked by IFCN-accredited fact-checkers. For instance, Maldita.es found that a fabricated quote attributed to King Felipe VI (“Madrid has been a liberation”) was false and had been disseminated by outlets including Okdiario. In another case, Maldita.es debunked a viral claim that Spain would have to pay €2 billion in bail for Catalan separatist leaders, noting that the story was spread by sites such as Okdiario and classifying it as a “bulo” (hoax).

More broadly, academic and media research has highlighted Okdiario’s reputation problems. A University of Valencia study on media credibility published in 2017 rated Okdiario as Spain’s worst-valued news outlet among surveyed users. This, combined with repeated corrections, legal disputes over reporting, and fact-checkers’ findings, supports a Low factual reporting rating.

Failed Fact Checks

• IFCN-accredited Maldita.es has explicitly identified false or misleading information carried by Okdiario, including the fabricated Felipe VI quote and the exaggerated €2 billion bail claim, among others, classifying these narratives as hoaxes and providing documentary evidence to the contrary. While these checks do not cover all of Okdiario’s output, they demonstrate a pattern of publishing or amplifying unverified or incorrect claims in politically salient contexts.

Overall, we rate Okdiario Right to Far-Right based on its strongly ideological editorial line, nationalist framing, and frequent use of loaded, adversarial language across news and opinion. We also rate it Questionable due to documented failed fact checks, a history of publishing or amplifying inaccurate claims, and consistently poor performance in independent media-trust surveys. (D. Van Zandt 12/11/2025)

Source: https://okdiario.com/

Last Updated on December 11, 2025 by Media Bias Fact Check

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