Conclusion This research suggests that engagement with contested posts that include links to news stories circulating on social media is not constant, and that

Conclusion This research suggests that engagement with contested posts that include links to news stories circulating on social media is not constant, and that broader diffusion of inaccurate claims is not a universal characteristics of social media; instead, there are important differences across social media platforms. As we further develop our understanding of how such true and false information either takes hold or fails to do so we must understand how factors such as technical affordances, social norms, and differences in user populations separately or together contribute to false information capturing the public’s attention.