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Facebook engagement for top real and fake election stories in the United States 2016

Facebook engagements for the top 20 election stories in the United States in 2016, by authenticity (in millions)

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