The data describes the total Facebook engagements for the top 20 election stories in the U.S. in 2016, by authenticity. According to the source, there were a total of 8.7 million Facebook engagements for fake news stories about the election, in comparison to 7.3 million engagements for mainstream news stories.
Mainstream news | 7.3 |
Fake news | 8.7 |