Sanctions, sabotage or solar eruption: false theories about the cause of the Iberian blackout continue to emerge

Almost two weeks after an unprecedented blackout has paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula, unfounded statements and conspiracy theories continue to work on the Internet.

These are fed by the lack of official confirmation of the cause of the power court, which the Spanish government says it has “three to six months” to determine.

The governments of Madrid and Lisbon is celebrating his own consultationsas panel of experts for European level Will conduct independent investigation.

The Spanish network operator, the electric red, indicated as a probable cause two “consecutive” disconnection events, with only 1.5 seconds of interval, in energy production centers in the southwest of Spain.

But the theory has not yet been corroborated and the exact cause of these events has not been determined.

And Euroverify i denied The viral accusations of a computer attack, a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” or a government that covers in the hours that followed the power cut.

But a series of false theories and coordinated erroneous information actors continue to take advantage of the ongoing speculation to sow more confusion.

No, Telegraph and France 24 did not associate the blackout with sanctions against Russia

A falsified article of the British newspaper The Independent has been circulating in Telegram, claiming that the blackout was a “consequence of European sanctions against Russia.”

Another falsified video with the brand of the French station 24 makes the same unfounded statements.

This false news establishes that European networks have been equipped with Polish material cannot support the “level of charge in electrical networks” due to sanctions against Moscow.

“Even if the replacement of Russian equipment begins immediately, it will be technically impossible to replace the systems for the end of the year,” says France 24 false video, and adds that this means that several regions of France will be “without energy supply by 2025.”

There is no evidence to support these statements.

The center to combine the misinformation of Ukraine, a government agency, establishes that the pro-rusa erroneous information actors are behind the false accusation.

“The purpose of this misinformation is to create the impression that the sanctions against Russia are ineffective and only damage EU countries, to weaken European support to Ukraine,” fixed The agency.

Many of the accounts that spread a false accusation on platforms such as Telegram, Facebook and X are linked to the well -known Russian erroneous information networks.

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The objective verifiers of the Spanish news agency EFE, in collaboration with the antibot4navalny associations, discovered than the campaign It is linked to pro-regular operations, such as Matrioska and Pravda.

The accusations that the blackout was caused by a solar eruption are unfounded

Other users of social networks affirmed that the Spanish, Portuguese and French authorities have attributed energy cut to the “solar eruption activity”, which is when an intense magnetic energy from the surface of the sun is released.

One Publish no x What reveals this statement was seen almost two million times.

But no official government or sources from any of the three -foot countries pointed to a solar flame, and no gender activity was detected in the blackout, according to the United States space meteorate prognosis.

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A closer look at the video shared with unfounded accusations reveals that it shows the activity of a solar eruption recorded on May 10, 2024.

The battery reports of irregular migrants after the blackout are also false.

The accusations that circulate on the Internet that the Spanish army stood out to prevent “irregular migrants” from looting the day of the blackout are not true either.

A YouTube video, presented as a journalistic report, falsely affirms that an irregular place of migrants looted supermarkets, pharmacies and small businesses in Spanish cities, causing a military response.

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These reports are completely unfounded and the report brings together images and videos of unrelated files.

There is no evidence to suggest that there have been batteries after the blackout. On the morning of April 29, the day after the blackout, the Spanish Interior Ministry said that the previous night had been “quiet”, “without notable security incidents.”

There is no intentional sabotage intention

There is also no evidence that he supports viral accusations that Blackout was the result of a sabotage law.

Some social media users suggested, without any evidence, that nuclear energy companies could have caused an intentionally blackout to show the fragility of the network and take the Spanish government to reconsider their progressive nuclear energy elimination plan, which is considered to have a stabilizing impact on electrical networks.

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One Publish no x That shares this unfounded statement has been seen more than 250,000 times.

Other theories that circulate on the Internet attribute the responsibility of an intentional act of sabotage to Russia, France, Morocco or a terrorist organization, without any evidence that supports these accusations, as Euroverify previously verified.