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Did Feijóo discuss his photo with a drug trafficker on The Wild Project?

Are about 500,000 immigrants in Spain collecting the Ingreso Mínimo Vital without having worked a single hour in the last year, as PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo told Jordi Wild?

True

The episode exists, the topics were discussed, and the Dorado yacht photos are genuine.

TRUE. The Wild Project episode 392 is a genuine interview with PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo, published on 13 November 2026, the first day of the campaign. Its topic list is accurate, including "su foto con el narco": the 1995 yacht photographs of Feijóo with convicted trafficker Marcial Dorado are real and were published by El País in 2013.

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The post as it circulated.

Claims

✓ 2 true

Alberto Núñez Feijóo has a photograph of himself with a drug trafficker (Marcial Dorado).678

“Su foto con el narco”

✓ TrueCentral claimHigh confidence

This is the part of the headline that matters most, and it holds. El País published two photographs in 2013 showing a then-young Feijóo, at the time a regional health official, aboard a yacht with Marcial Dorado. Feijóo did not dispute them: he confirmed their authenticity and gave his account to the Galician parliament that year. Dorado was later convicted of cocaine trafficking. Maldita.es, a certified Spanish fact-checker, has examined the wider set of Feijóo–Dorado images in circulation and found that the two yacht photos are real while several others — a barbecue, a train, an arm-grabbing scene — are fabricated montages. So the headline is accurate, but only because it leans on the genuine images. A reader should weigh two things: the photographs are old, from 1995, and their authenticity is not in doubt; what remains disputed is Feijóo's own account of what he knew about Dorado at the time, which elDiario.es and Público contest with references to Dorado's earlier record.

Still open: What Feijóo knew about Dorado's activities in 1995 is contested; the authenticity of the yacht photographs is not.

Episode 392 of The Wild Project, featuring Alberto Núñez Feijóo, covered his photograph with Marcial Dorado, pensions, Isabel Díaz Ayuso and corruption.12345

✓ TrueHigh confidence

Several Spanish outlets that watched the episode describe the same content. El Confidencial reports Feijóo's exchange with Wild about the Dorado photographs and his remarks on scrapping ministries; Cadena SER reports the "siete millones no son nada" answer about the Ayuso government's Chamberí attic purchase; La Razón describes Wild pressing Feijóo on Rajoy, Dorado, Ayuso and the attic; HuffPost reports the moment Wild showed the photograph on screen and Feijóo replied that he had already explained it to Galicians in 2013. RTVE places the episode in the campaign, noting Wild planned to interview the four main candidates. These outlets are not independent of one another in the sense of separate investigations, but they are separate newsrooms describing the same published video, and their accounts agree. Pensions appear in the headline; the coverage we reviewed focuses on the Dorado, Ayuso and corruption exchanges, so a reader should treat the pensions element as reported but less detailed in the sources listed here.

A text-only post: there was no media to test.

What was posted

YouTube

This submission is the title of a YouTube episode from the podcast The Wild Project, hosted by Jordi Wild. No image, video or transcript came with it — only the episode title, which lists the topics and the guest, Partido Popular leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The title asks readers to believe that Feijóo sat for the interview and that each subject named was covered.

“The Wild Project #392 - Alberto Núñez Feijóo | Su foto con el narco, Pensiones, Ayuso y Corrupción”

“The Wild Project #392 - Alberto Núñez Feijóo | His photo with the narco, Pensions, Ayuso and Corruption” — translated

Published on the YouTube channel of The Wild Project on 13 November 2026, the opening day of the 29 November election campaign, according to El Confidencial's report that day.

Who posted it

YouTube
The Wild Project✓ Verified on YouTube

@thewildproject

7.5M subscribers · Account 6.7 years old

“CADA MARTES Y JUEVES NUEVOS EPISODIOS. Bienvenidos a THE WILD PROJECT, el podcast de Jordi Wild. Charlas con los invitados más interesantes, actualidad, ciencia, deportes, filosofía, psicología, misterio, debates y tertulias... y muchísimo más. Cada semana hablando alto y claro sobre el mundo que nos rodea. ¡No te lo pierdas! Además de Youtube, sigue el podcast cada semana desde: 🔊 Suscríbete a Podimo y obtén 30 días gratis, ahí estoy SIN ANUNCIOS: https://podimo.es/thewildproject El Facebook de The Wild Project: https://www.facebook.com/TheWildProjectOficial Las redes sociales de Jordi: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordiwild8/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/JordiWild - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JordiWild ¡Cada martes y jueves nuevo episodio!”

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Account check

Looks like a genuine account86%
Likelihood of automation3%

Estimates from public signals — account age, posting pattern, audience — not a judgement of the person behind the account, and separate from whether this post is true.

What stood out

  • Genuine, long-established channel of Spanish YouTuber/podcaster Jordi Wild (Jordi Carrillo de Albornoz Torres, Manresa 1984); the channel launched 2 March 2020 and is now the main outlet of a well-known media personality.
  • Platform-verified with ~7.4M subscribers (vidIQ: 7.41M subs, ~4.98B views, 9,924 videos) — consistent with independent trackers and press reports, no sign of inflated/fake following.
  • Widely covered by mainstream Spanish media (El País, RTVE, La Vanguardia, El Independiente, eldiario.es) in Nov 2026 for securing election interviews with Sánchez, Feijóo and Colau (Abascal cancelled), plus a 2025 Ondas podcast award.
  • The bio's cross-links (Podimo, Instagram, X, Facebook) and branding match the real person's verified accounts; no domain-squatting or impersonation signals on the profile itself.
  • Editorial standards are that of an entertainer, not a newsroom: it hosts conspiracy theorists and pseudo-historical guests (e.g. Mr. Tartaria/Rimbel35, Tito Vivas) and has been criticised for giving them a large platform, with sceptical blogs debunking claims aired on the show.
  • It has amplified unverified material: a defence filing in the 'Bar España' hoax trial cited a 90-minute Wild Project episode discussing the false story as evidence of wide diffusion — reputational risk for reliability, though not proof of deliberate disinformation.
  • Positive reliability signal: for the November 2026 candidate interviews it hired two independent fact-checkers (Javier Collado, Vozpópuli; Iván Muñoz, infoLibre), pledged no prior questions and full unedited publication.
  • Note: several viral hoaxes using Wild's name/platform (fake investment-scam sites, 'detained by police' stories) were debunked by Maldita.es — these target him rather than originate from him.
  • Publication rhythm (Tuesdays/Thursdays long-form episodes, plus high-volume clip uploads) is professional-team driven, not automated bot behaviour; engagement in the 80K–3M view range matches channel scale.
Signals (10)+
Channel launch
2020-03-02
Follower ratio
Consistent with channel scale; no anomalies
Posting cadence
2 long-form episodes/week + frequent clips; 9,924 total videos
Notable news coverage
El País, RTVE, La Vanguardia, El Independiente, eldiario.es, Diario de Sevilla (Nov 2026)
Awards
Premio Ondas Globales del Podcast 2025 (career)
Fact checker engagement
Hired Javier Collado (Vozpópuli) and Iván Muñoz (infoLibre) for 2026 election interviews
Fact check history
Maldita.es debunked hoaxes impersonating the channel (investment scam, fake arrest); elDiario.es noted Wild aired the 'Bar España' hoax for 90 minutes
Content quality
Entertainment/long-form interviews; platform given to conspiracy promoters; not a primary news source
Political orientation
Described in press as centrist/anti-establishment; polled as near centre
Bot signals
None detected; team of ~2 core staff, professional production

Recent posts from this account

Account checked November 13, 2026, 15:02 UTC

Sources

9 sources reviewed

Further reading

  • 7Maldita.es The key reference separating the real Feijóo–Dorado photographs from the fabricated montages.
  • 6elDiario.es Explains the evidence behind the dispute over what Feijóo knew about Dorado in 1995.
  • 4RTVE Places The Wild Project and the interview in the context of the 2026 election campaign.

The full story

The kernel of truth here is a set of photographs that are more than thirty years old and entirely real. In 2013, El País published two 1995 images of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, then a regional health official, aboard a yacht with Marcial Dorado. Feijóo confirmed the photographs and explained himself before the Galician parliament that year. Dorado was later convicted of cocaine trafficking. Those facts are not in dispute, and Maldita.es has confirmed that the yacht images are genuine while several other Feijóo–Dorado pictures shared online are montages.

That is why the episode title's phrase "su foto con el narco" is accurate: it points to real material. The interview, published on 13 November 2026 on the first day of the campaign, gave Feijóo a long platform to address it. According to HuffPost, Wild showed him the photograph on screen, and Feijóo replied that he had already explained it to Galicians in 2013. He insisted he did not know of Dorado's trafficking when they met.

That insistence is where the genuine argument lies. elDiario.es notes that Dorado had been among those detained in the 1990 Operación Nécora before Feijóo boarded his yacht. The headline does not claim Feijóo knew; it claims the photograph exists. A reader who confuses those two things will misread both the post and the coverage around it.

Kernel of truth

The 1995 yacht photographs of Feijóo with Marcial Dorado are authentic, published by El País in 2013 and confirmed by Feijóo himself; the podcast episode is real and covered the topics listed.

Timeline

  1. 1990

    Marcial Dorado is among those detained in the Operación Nécora anti-drug operation, according to elDiario.es. 6elDiario.es

  2. 1995

    Photographs are taken of a young Feijóo aboard Marcial Dorado's yacht. 7Maldita.es

  3. 2013

    El País publishes the yacht photographs; Feijóo confirms them and explains himself in the Galician parliament. 7Maldita.es

  4. November 13, 2026

    The Wild Project episode 392 with Feijóo is published on the first day of the 29 November election campaign and draws wide coverage. 1El Confidencial

How it was framed

Accurate

The post is a genuine podcast episode title, and both its existence and its factual substance check out. The phrase "su foto con el narco" refers to authentic 1995 photographs that Feijóo himself confirmed.

  • Emotional language. The phrase "su foto con el narco" uses the colloquial, loaded word "narco" rather than a neutral description such as "Marcial Dorado, convicted of drug trafficking".
  • “Visual proof”. The headline points to a photograph as the anchor of the claim ("su foto"), inviting readers to treat the image as the proof.

Posted on the YouTube channel of The Wild Project, a long-form interview podcast hosted by Jordi Wild. RTVE describes the show's video format as having around 390 episodes and notes Wild planned to interview the four main candidates in the 2026 campaign. No bias rating applies to the episode title itself.

Bias

NoneSlightModerateStrong

The headline is a topic list for a long-form election-campaign interview; naming 'su foto con el narco' foregrounds Feijóo's most damaging known photograph, but the photo is genuine and documented, and the episode itself gave Feijóo an uninterrupted platform to answer (including his attack lines on Pedro Sánchez), so no strong directional slant is evident.

Bias describes how the post frames its message — the slant of the language, selection and emphasis — and is judged separately from whether the claim is true. A true claim can still be framed with a strong slant.

How we checked

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  1. 1

    We searched for the episode by name and number ("The Wild Project 392 Feijóo Jordi Wild") to see whether it existed and what it covered.

  2. 2

    We searched for the photograph claim ("Feijóo foto narco Marcial Dorado yate") to trace its origin and any existing fact-checks.

  3. 3

    We reviewed coverage from El Confidencial, Cadena SER, HuffPost, La Razón, RTVE and elDiario.es describing the episode's content.

  4. 4

    We reviewed Maldita.es's fact-check separating the genuine yacht photographs from fabricated Feijóo–Dorado montages.

  5. 5

    We noted that the submission is text-only, so no image or video authenticity test applied.

✓ Claim checked– Media not applicable✓ Sources checked

Why 85% confidence

High

HIGH: the episode is described consistently by multiple separate newsrooms, and the authenticity of the yacht photographs is established by a certified fact-checker and by Feijóo's own 2013 confirmation. The only contested element — what Feijóo knew about Dorado in 1995 — is a dispute inside the interview, not a weakness in the headline.

Limits. We did not open or watch the full episode ourselves; our account of its content rests on the published coverage listed. We also did not independently verify the pensions discussion beyond its presence in the headline and general coverage.

What we don’t know

  • Whether every topic named in the title received substantial airtime, or whether some were mentioned only briefly.
  • What Feijóo knew about Marcial Dorado's activities in 1995; his account is contested by elDiario.es and Público, and the underlying question is not settled by the photographs.
  • How many people watched the episode beyond the figure in El Confidencial's report.

Spot it yourself

Why it looked fake

Looks suspicious, isn’t proof

  • The word "narco" in the headline sounds like tabloid exaggeration, but here it describes a man who was in fact convicted of cocaine trafficking.
  • A podcast interview with a party leader during an election campaign can look like a staged or partisan product; the format alone tells you nothing about whether the facts in the title are right.
  • The claim rests on old photographs, and old images are often recycled out of context — but age is not evidence of fakery.
  • Some Feijóo–Dorado images online really are montages, so a reader who has seen one fake may assume all of them are.

The actual evidence

  • El País published the two 1995 yacht photographs in 2013, and Feijóo confirmed them and explained himself in the Galician parliament, per Maldita.es and Página/12.
  • Maldita.es, a certified fact-checker, separates the genuine yacht photographs from the fabricated Feijóo–Dorado montages.
  • Several separate newsrooms — El Confidencial, Cadena SER, HuffPost, La Razón and RTVE — describe the same published episode and the same exchanges.
  • The episode date, 13 November 2026, matches the first day of the campaign as reported by El Confidencial and RTVE.
  1. 1

    Find the original publication of a photo before judging it

    Search the names plus "foto" and the year, and look for the outlet that first published it. Here, the trail leads to El País in 2013, which is a stronger anchor than any repost.

  2. 2

    Check whether the person in the photo has confirmed or denied it

    Feijóo addressed the photographs in the Galician parliament in 2013. A subject's own confirmation or court-tested denial is strong evidence either way.

  3. 3

    Separate the real image from the fakes around it

    Look for a fact-checker that has catalogued the images. Maldita.es lists which Feijóo–Dorado pictures are genuine and which are montages, so you do not have to guess image by image.

  4. 4

    Check whether the episode or event actually happened

    Search the show name and episode number and look for coverage from more than one newsroom. Several outlets describing the same exchanges on the same day is a good sign.

Takeaway

A headline can use loaded language and still be accurate; check the specific fact it points to — here, whether the photograph is real — rather than reacting to the tone. And when some images on a subject are fakes, do not assume all of them are.

Questions people ask

Is the photo of Feijóo with Marcial Dorado real?+

Yes. El País published two 1995 photographs in 2013 showing Feijóo aboard Marcial Dorado's yacht, and Feijóo confirmed them and explained himself in the Galician parliament. Maldita.es has verified that these yacht images are genuine, while several other Feijóo–Dorado pictures circulating online are montages.

Did Feijóo really appear on The Wild Project?+

Yes. Episode 392 of The Wild Project, hosted by Jordi Wild, was published on 13 November 2026, the first day of the 29 November election campaign. El Confidencial, Cadena SER, HuffPost, La Razón and RTVE all reported on the interview and the exchanges it contained.

What did Feijóo say about the Dorado photograph in the interview?+

According to HuffPost, Wild showed him the photograph on screen and Feijóo replied that he had already explained it to Galicians in 2013. He insisted he did not know Dorado was involved in drug trafficking when they met. elDiario.es notes Dorado had been detained in the 1990 Operación Nécora before that.

Why do some people think the photo is fake?+

Because several other images of Feijóo and Dorado that circulate online — including a barbecue, a train and an arm-grabbing scene — are fabricated montages, as Maldita.es has documented. The existence of those fakes leads some readers to doubt the genuine yacht photographs too.

What is The Wild Project?+

It is a long-form interview podcast hosted by Jordi Wild, best known for its video format on YouTube. RTVE notes it had around 390 episodes and that Wild planned to interview the four main candidates in the 2026 election campaign.

Go deeper

Operación Nécora
A major 1990 Spanish police operation against drug trafficking in Galicia, in which Marcial Dorado was among those detained.
Montage
An image made by combining or altering pictures so that it shows something that did not happen.
Fact-checker
An organisation that verifies public claims and rates their accuracy, often according to international certification standards.
Videopodcast
A podcast recorded and published with video, usually on YouTube, so the conversation can be watched as well as heard.

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For educators+
Authenticity versus accuracy: a real photograph can be used accurately or misleadingly, and a fake one can accompany a true story.The difference between a claim and the evidence behind it: the headline says a photograph exists, not what Feijóo knew.Source corroboration: several newsrooms describing the same published video is not the same as several independent investigations.Loaded language: "narco" is colloquial and emotive, yet here it describes a real conviction.
  • The headline uses the word "narco". Does emotive language make a claim less trustworthy, or does it depend on whether the word is accurate?
  • Maldita.es found that some Feijóo–Dorado images are real and others are montages. How should that change the way you respond to the next image of the pair you see?
  • Feijóo says he did not know about Dorado's trafficking in 1995. What kind of evidence would you need to judge that claim, and is it the same evidence that proves the photograph is real?

About this check

Platform
YouTube
Posted by
@thewildproject
Posted
November 13, 2026
Age when checked
Under 24 hours old when checked
Where it spread
Spain
Audience
UK & EU audience
Language
ES
Status
● Post is live
Verified
November 13, 2026, 15:03 UTC
Published
November 13, 2026, 15:03 UTC

Reach. Full The Wild Project interview #392 released 13 Nov, 16 days before the 29N general election; the IMV line is headlined by OkDiario, El Debate, El Independiente, HerQles and Bilbaohiria (13 Nov). Feijóo made a similar claim on El Hormiguero in June that LaSexta called imprecise. View count not retr

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