Sánchez, pay an independent counter of protesters

Governments claim to want to combat disinformation, but any punitive efforts will always be subject to suspicion of political bias. After all, truth and lies are difficult to objectify (although this shouldn't allow for the open bar at a two-star hotel on the coast that the narrative war has become). However, there are ways to determine whether a human congregation consists of 300 people or, as the organizers claim, 4.5 million. The reason and The World They claim that this Sunday, at the demonstration against Sánchez, there were a whopping 100,000 people (rounded by the number, don't see fatphobia here). This is the figure given by the People's Party (PP), which the state government delegation lowered by half. Other calculations, based on the photo of the square where the rally was held, suggest an even lower number of souls.

A government that truly wants to restore the notion of a shared truth, at least with regard to accounting, could sponsor an independent body emerging from universities that would combine current technology with a prestigious technical team capable of applying relatively simple mathematical formulas. In Catalonia, the Contrastant collective demonstrated this a few years ago, bringing a blush to the faces of the media, which were still content to provide two absurdly disparate figures and—looking at the reader, listener, or viewer with shrugged shoulders—suggesting that the truth is the midday truth. There's no need to go to the extremes of China, where the government must be able to name even the brand of underwear worn by those gathered, but obtaining a credible figure should be possible. And the media should be the first to be interested.