Is There Football Now?
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Claim-checked. Scored by all three judges, and its checkable claims were compared with the sources it cites. How far stories are checked
LaLiga and Telefónica's TAD obtained a Barcelona commercial court ruling (December 2024) letting them ask Spanish ISPs, including Movistar, MásOrange, Vodafone and DIGI, to block IP addresses during matches. Because IPv4 addresses are shared by CDNs such as Cloudflare, legitimate sites can become unreachable.
Why it ranked
No. 23 of 109 with a score of 0.62. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.83) and reader interest (0.71), lowest on audience breadth (0.59). Placed No. 23, No. 58 by score alone: the placement terms moved other stories past it.
- AI judgeJudge 2claude-haiku-5-5
- Documents IP-based blocking by Spanish ISPs during LaLiga broadcasts and collateral damage to shared CDN IPs. Policy-heavy, with a measurement project, mostly sourced claims and some technical detail on IP blocking and DNS workarounds.
- AI judgeJudge 3gpt-5.6-luna
- A well-supported analysis of Spain’s opaque, collateral IP-blocking regime, with legal context, measurement limitations, and actionable diagnostics. It is useful to operators and infrastructure builders, though geographically specific and partly advocacy-oriented.
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Score
0.62total under rubric v2.3
- Significance0.61
- Reader interest0.71
- Audience breadth0.59
- Practical relevance0.67
- Substantiated0.70
- Technical depth0.61
- New information0.83
- Counts against: Promotional0.11
- Counts against: Overclaim0.23
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SignificanceHow much does this change what people in tech know or can do? | 0.56 | 0.60 | 0.68 | 0.61 | 0.12 | +0.24 | +0.147 |
| Reader interestWould a well-informed senior engineer or tech founder want to read this today, and likely pass it on? | 0.65 | 0.70 | 0.78 | 0.71 | 0.13 | +0.26 | +0.185 |
| Audience breadthHow many people who build technology does it concern? | 0.65 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.59 | 0.10 | +0.13 | +0.077 |
| Practical relevanceHow useful is it to someone who builds software or tech products? | 0.68 | 0.60 | 0.72 | 0.67 | 0.12 | +0.22 | +0.147 |
| SubstantiatedHow well is it backed? Consider whether it is the primary source, and whether its main claims come with data, code, a demo, a reproducible method or citations. | 0.85 | 0.50 | 0.75 | 0.70 | 0.35 | +0.05 | +0.035 |
| Technical depthHow technically substantive is it? | 0.75 | 0.45 | 0.62 | 0.61 | 0.30 | +0.05 | +0.030 |
| New informationDoes it contain information absent from the stories covered in the last 7 days (list provided)? | 0.95 | 0.60 | 0.93 | 0.83 | 0.35 | +0.05 | +0.041 |
| PromotionalIs it mainly marketing with little substance (a press release, ad or sponsored post with no real information)? A launch post that carries real news is not promotional. | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.11 | 0.08 | −0.19 | −0.022 |
| OverclaimDo the headline or conclusions claim more than the body supports? | 0.20 | 0.35 | 0.14 | 0.23 | 0.21 | −0.11 | −0.025 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.615 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.616 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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Claim check: 3 matches source · 5 couldn’t check. Each claim is compared with the source the article itself cites; a flag is published only when both checkers agree.
Couldn’t checkDate
La sentencia nº 310/2024 del Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº 6 de Barcelona, de 18 de diciembre de 2024, estableció un mecanismo dinámico por el que LaLiga y TAD pueden comunicar a los operadores nuevas direcciones IP que sustituyan a las inicialmente identificadas.
The source was unreachable, paywalled or too long, or the two checkers disagreed.
The article says “estableció un mecanismo dinámico: LaLiga y Telefónica Audiovisual Digital (TAD) pueden comunicar a los operadores nuevas direcciones IP que sustituyan a las identificadas inicialmente”
The source says No passage could be compared.
Source cited by the article: poderjudicial.es/search/AN/openDocument/766326fb999ba14aa0a8778d75e36f0d/20250331
Matches sourceNumber
Un informe de OONI publicado en junio de 2026 estima que más de 550.000 dominios resultaron afectados en algún momento entre el 1 de enero y el 1 de junio de 2026.
The cited source says the same thing.
The article says “estima que más de 550.000 dominios resultaron afectados en algún momento entre el 1 de enero y el 1 de junio de 2026”
The source says “we observe a total of 554,507 unique domain names that were at some point in time affected during the LALIGA football match broadcasts”
Source cited by the article: ooni.org/post/2026-laliga-collateral
Matches sourceQuote
LaLiga desmintió cualquier relación de sus sistemas con el incidente de la familia que no pudo localizar a un padre con demencia por el fallo de la app de su localizador GPS.
The cited source says the same thing.
The article says “LaLiga desmintió cualquier relación de sus sistemas con el incidente”
The source says “LALIGA desmiente categóricamente dicha afirmación”
Source cited by the article: laliga.com/noticias/nota-informativa-en-relacion-con-la-informacion-publicada-por-adslzone
Matches sourceQuote
En su nota del 15 de febrero de 2025, LaLiga reconoció disfunciones de webs y afectación a "empresas legales", atribuyendo la responsabilidad a Cloudflare por compartir infraestructura con servicios infractores.
The cited source says the same thing.
The article says “reconoció disfunciones de webs y afectación a "empresas legales", atribuyendo la responsabilidad a Cloudflare por compartir infraestructura con servicios infractores”
The source says “Las empresas legales que se ven afectadas por estos bloqueos son aquellas que Cloudflare ha empleado de manera consciente como escudo digital para ocultarlas, sin su conocimiento y lucrándose de…”
Source cited by the article: laliga.com/noticias/nota-informativa-en-relacion-con-el-bloqueo-de-ips-durante-las-ultimas-jornadas-de-laliga-ea-sports-vinculadas-a-las-practicas-ilegales-de-cloudflare
Couldn’t checkCausal conclusion
En 2023, en el procedimiento sobre PowVideo, el juzgado limitó el bloqueo de direcciones IP a servidores dedicados en exclusiva a la plataforma, recurriendo al DNS para el resto, tras la oposición de varios operadores.
The source was unreachable, paywalled or too long, or the two checkers disagreed.
The article says “el juzgado limitó el bloqueo de direcciones a servidores dedicados en exclusiva a la plataforma, recurriendo al DNS para el resto”
The source says No passage could be compared.
Source cited by the article: poderjudicial.es/search/AN/openDocument/269fe8f5d665dc3ea0a8778d75e36f0d/20231027
Couldn’t checkDate
El Juzgado de lo Mercantil de Córdoba rechazó en mayo de 2026 multar a NordVPN por negarse a aplicar las listas de LaLiga, según NordVPN, que describe la decisión como preliminar.
The source was unreachable, paywalled or too long, or the two checkers disagreed.
The article says “el juzgado rechazó las multas en mayo de 2026, según la propia NordVPN, que describe la decisión como preliminar”
The source says No passage could be compared.
Source cited by the article: nordvpn.com/blog/spanish-court-rejects-fines-against-nordvpn
Couldn’t checkQuote
El pliego de noviembre de 2025 de LaLiga, para las temporadas 2027/28–2031/32, establece que los adjudicatarios que presten acceso a internet se comprometen a cooperar y a evitar formalizar impugnación frente a las resoluciones judiciales en esta materia.
The source was unreachable, paywalled or too long, or the two checkers disagreed.
The article says “evitando formalizar impugnación frente a las resoluciones judiciales que en esta materia se acuerden”
The source says No passage could be compared.
Source cited by the article: assets.laliga.com/assets/2025/11/07/originals/176430d21ac2f66da274d8f0dbaf1dd8.pdf
Couldn’t checkDate
El juzgado desestimó en marzo de 2025 la nulidad de actuaciones pedida por Cloudflare y RootedCON contra la sentencia, sin apreciar perjuicio acreditado.
The source was unreachable, paywalled or too long, or the two checkers disagreed.
The article says “Cloudflare y RootedCON pidieron la nulidad de actuaciones contra la sentencia; el juzgado la desestimó en marzo de 2025, sin apreciar perjuicio acreditado en ese incidente”
The source says No passage could be compared.
Source cited by the article: laliga.com/en-GB/news/commercial-court-no-6-of-barcelona-upholds-the-judgment-issued-in-favour-of-laliga-and-dismisses-the-annulments-filed-by-cloudflare-and-rootedcon
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