This post accusing Cesar Sayoc of being a false flag operative has almost 78,000 shares. For scale, the NYT's most shared FB post of the last month got 50,000 shares.pic.twitter.com/CVGmkDxlSm
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Possibly, but that would seem to be a mis-attribution on FB's part if so. It's not how Twitter does thing for example (either likes and retweets get counted together and are carried through a share, preserving the ratio, or the counters start from zero again).
But I'd consider again that share!=seen in Feed. You can share until you're blue in the face...doesn't mean anyone is seeing it. If this post was put out by a very popular page (OP doesn't seem to cite a source), it could get get shared like crazy with little engagement.
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