The biggest takeaways from 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann'

As exhaustive as coverage of McCann's disappearance may have been all over the world, it's difficult to fully appreciate the constant barrage of information that blanketed the UK in 2007.

A main focus of the Netflix documentary was to highlight the sheer volume of misinformation that circulated surrounding the case. From unsubstantiated allegations that the McCann parents had something to do with their child's disappearance to online trolls making outrageous claims, the information available to the public at the time was both overwhelming and, often, untrue.

According to the BBC, newspaper editors of British publications reported being able to sell around 30,000 extra copies of a given issue just by putting Madeleine's face on its cover.

The documentary contrasted the press surrounding Madeleine's disappearance with that of missing 11-year-old Portuguese boy Rui Pedro, whose disappearance received little coverage.

"I can assure you the money police spent on the Portuguese children is not even 1% of what they spent on Maddie," former detective Paulo Pereira Cristovao said in the Netflix documentary.

Producer Emma Cooper told Newsweek that drawing attention to the plight of other missing children through the McCann case was part of the motivation behind this series.

She said, "Through Madeleine's story, we were also able to point to the many missing children who are often not looked for in the world. As you can see in the series there are books of missing children — many of whom have been trafficked and are difficult to find."