“…This was logical, given the impossibility of evaluating the candidates' broadcasted material through the two most common sources for detecting possible disinformation, that is, the media and other fact-checkers. On the one hand, the media in Cape Verde curiously tends to provide rather superficial and shallow coverage of political campaigns (Novais, 2020b;Reis et al, 2016), as evidenced in the marginalization and depolitization of press reporting (Esser and Strömbäck, 2012, p.318;Farnsworth & Lichter, 2003;Swanson & Mancini, 1996;Patterson, 2000) by recent electoral campaigns in Cabo Verde (Novais, 2020b;Reis et al, 2016). Therefore, media reporting on election campaigns usually consists of merely reproducing the daily activities and declarations of the candidates in lieu of devoting the coverage to more substantial issues determined by the press's own editorial initiative.…”