The Spanish government is actively engineering news items, making up and spreading lies, and using fake accounts in social networks in order to manipulate public opinion in Spain, Catalonia and the rest of Europe regarding Catalonia's independence process.
Their objective is to bury actual news in a mountain of misinformation and attacks against the Catalan people in an attempt to demoralize those of us who are for Catalonia's independence, so in the December 21st election the Catalan Republic won't be ratified.
Let's be honest: there isn't an easy solution, because nowadays it's easy to spread information quickly on social networks.
One thing we can do is expose and discredit fake or engineered news items, and provide a repository of resources so we don't have to rebate the same claims again and again in online debates.
We also maintain a list of Twitter accounts belonging to individuals, entities or user groups who have a strong reputation for being trusted sources of information.