Fake News, Fact Checking, and Partisanship: The Resilience of Rumors in the 2018 Brazilian Elections

A study aimed at studying the effectiveness of fact checking during elections in developing countries, based on the finding that fact checking reduced misinformation during elections in developed countries. the findings suggest that fact checking in Brazil during the elections was eneffective. it invites future reserach to explain the reasons behind it, since the researchers could not find any evidence that this was linked to dogmatism, disengagement, and political interest or on socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.