“…This has made understanding of user behaviour on these platforms an important area of research for practitioners and academics alike, particularly in the case of Facebook. As a result, a significant body of research has examined content diffusion and influence in this domain (Liew, Vaithilingam, and Nair 2014;Lin, Li, and Wu 2015). Within this work, the prevailing idea is that content generated or shared within social connections enabled by social network sites tends to be more reliable and trustworthy than is content originating from other sources, since the social network content originated through connections between family, friends, and known peers (Ellison, Steinfield, and Lampe 2007).…”