The Western Sahara War Archive (WSWA) aims to inform and to organize data about the latest stage of the last colonial war in Africa, which started on 13th November 2020 in Western Sahara. Is this a meaningful task in a society overloaded with news and data, in which some of the most profitable corporations belong to the media branch? More than five decades ago, some regretted that the market demand for facts had set up a fact-producing industry, in which journalists were now replacing scholars. As expected when so much capital is poured into one branch, the unit cost of this particular good, news, tends now to zero. It is consensual, however, that something went wrong along the process. Since the “monstrous event” (which was the monumental label given by erudite historians of the 1960’s for what are now just ordinary fake-news in social networks) this branch of the industry has surely progressed in a peculiar way.