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Correction:In the initial publication of this story, dated October 1, 2018, BBC Spanish audience data was extracted incorrectly from Similarweb.com.Because Polygraph.info was not a Similarweb.com subscriber, we were restricted to using data for parent websites. The BBC Spanish website, BBC Mundo, is a "subfolder" of the parent BBC website (https://www.bbc.com/mundo), while the RT Spanish website, RT Actualidad, is itself a parent (https://actualidad.rt.com/). Consequently, the 413 million visit figure for BBC Mundo was erroneous, while the 38 million visit figure for RT was correct.Polygraph.info has since extracted data specific to BBC Mundo using a commercial account. The correct data, as shown below, shows that the audience for BBC Mundo and RT Actualidad, for the March-August 2018 timeframe, is roughly similar, at 11-12 million visits per month. Similarweb.com Graph displaying BBC Mundo and RT Actualidad Web Traffic, March-August 2018It is important to distinguish desktop and mobile traffic, but we cannot effectuate a comparison of the latter between BBC Spanish and RT Spanish due to a lack of data on Similarweb.com.However, because Similarweb.com provides detailed data on desktop traffic, we can conclude with high confidence that the following numbers are accurate:During the March-August 2018 timeframe, 53% of RT’s global traffic and 56% of BBC’s global traffic was mobile.During the March-August 2018 timeframe, 67.7% of RT Spanish’s traffic was mobileAssuming that the behavior of BBC’s and RT’s Spanish-speaking audience was similar, their respective mobile shares should be similar as well: Similarweb.com data comparing BBC Mundo and RT Actualidad, March-August 2018Despite the findings above, the content of the original fact check means that the verdict for Margarita Simonyan’s statement remains partially true;" though she provided accurate information about RT traffic in Arabic and Spanish
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