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To contribute to the extant literature regarding fake news, we delve into a broader critical approach based on materialistic contributions recently covered by studies of platforms. These studies, grounded in Marxism (in particular, its thesis related to capital circulation) (Marx 1990), grasp today’s increasing financialization. We base ourselves on the previous conceptualization of fake news as counterfeit information dressed up as news content, but we try to complement that definition in a direction close to the infrastructural perspective. Nevertheless, as we pointed out earlier, in our view, even that approach lacks an emphasis of the broader historical transformations that paved the way to the current state of affairs (a trend also observed in experimental studies regarding alleged fake news effects). We need to grasp the shifts in the means of production due to technological developments and how they have been appropriated to favor platform companies. Fake news represents the most visible face of unrestricted circulation in pursuit of data.