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Fact-checking journalism, as an emerging journalistic genre dedicated to the “verification of facts,” relies almost entirely on data-based practices. It uses data in order to serve a very specific approach to professional objectivity. The development of this professionalized, rationalized, technologized form of journalism is first and foremost a response to the crisis of legitimacy of the journalistic profession. It is thus driven by different discourses of belief, that can be defined as “myths,” and that aim to indicate that this journalism is the purest form of journalism. Therefore, it would be the only possible way of producing perfectly objective, neutral information, serving the mythical objective of telling the truth.