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Less reliable media drive interest in anti-vaccine information

Published:2023-06-06 Issue: Volume: Page:
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Container-title:Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
language:
Short-container-title:HKS Misinfo Review

Author:

Siwakoti Samikshya¹,Shapiro Jacob N.²,Evans Nathan³

Affiliation:

1. ESOC Lab, Princeton University, USA

2. School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA

3. Microsoft Research

Abstract

As progress on vaccine rollout in the United States slowed down in Spring 2021, it became clear that anti-vaccine information posed a public health threat. Using text data from 5,613 distinct COVID misinformation stories and 70 anti-vaccination Facebook groups, we tracked highly salient keywords regarding anti-vaccine discourse across Twitter, thousands of news websites, and the Google and Bing search engines from May through June 2021, a key period when progress on vaccinations very clearly stalled. Granger causality tests showed that searches for anti-vaccination terms on Google as well as the appearance of these terms on Twitter followed spikes in their appearance in less reliable media sites, but not discussion in the mainstream press.

Funder

Microsoft

Publisher

Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy

Subject

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,Gastroenterology,Hepatology,Immunology and Allergy,Internal Medicine,Cancer Research,Oncology,Health Informatics,Human Factors and Ergonomics,Health Information Management,Health Informatics,Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Informatics,Rehabilitation,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Linguistics and Language,Communication,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,Oncology

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