Follow Ryan on Twitter. It’s a tech-themed Global Insider today, thanks to the insights of POLITICO’s chief technology correspondent Mark Scott. We’ll look at how: In Eastern European countries, Russian state media and disinformation are still all over Facebook. The White House is set to deliver an executive order on […]
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Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal
Our key independent variable is the mean percentage of vaccine-related misinformation shared via Twitter at the U.S. state or county level. We used 55 M tweets from the CoVaxxy dataset17, which were collected between January 4th and March 25th from the Twitter filtered stream API using a comprehensive list of keywords […]