Abstract
This research project fits into the current context of an intense concern about the impact of the propagation of misinformation in the public sphere (NYHAN & REIFLER, 2010, 2013) and the increasing credit attributed to the fact-checking agencies as a strategy for coping with fake news (NYHAN & REIFLER, 2012, GRAVES, 2016a, 2016b), in order to show that, despite the expansion of these init…