Spain’s regional elections are still nearly four months away, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are already braced for impact. “The race between fact-checkers and those they are checking on is an unequal one,” says Tim Gordon, cofounder of Best Practice AI, an artificial intelligence strategy and governance advisory firm, and a trustee of a UK fact-checking charity. New launches of fact-checking organizations have slowed since 2020, but the space is far from saturated, Stencel says—particularly in the US, where 29 out of 50 states still have no permanent fact-checking projects