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18 mar 2023 · Anti-vaccine activists, who for many years spoke primarily to niche communities hesitant about childhood vaccinations, have used traditional and social media to amplify vaccine-related mistruths about COVID-19 vaccines while also targeting historically marginalised racial and ethnic communities.
Fifth, anti-vaccination clusters show the highest growth during the measles outbreak of 2019, whereas pro-vaccination clusters show the lowest growth (Fig. 1c). Some anti-vaccination clusters...
13 maj 2020 · Although smaller in overall size, anti-vaccination clusters manage to become highly entangled with undecided clusters in the main online network, whereas pro-vaccination clusters are more...
9 lis 2023 · Examples of pro-vaccination reasons include protection of personal and public health, return to normality, and civic duty; while reasons against vaccination include fears for one's health, sociopolitical perplexity, and distrust of science and institutions (see Additional file 1: Appendix 1). At this stage, response information was added to the ...
The “anti-vax movement: ” a quantitative report on vaccine beliefs and knowledge across social media. Staci L Benoit* and Rachel F. Mauldin. Abstract. Background: Social media use has become a mainstay of communication and with that comes the exchange of factual and non-factual information.
Our theoretical framework reproduces the recent explosive growth in anti-vaccination views, and predicts that these views will dominate in a decade. Insights provided by this framework can inform new policies and approaches to interrupt this shift to negative views.
In our discussion we review the anti-vaccine movement in its current state, including associated demographics, argumentative patterns, and putative developments. We provide a discussion on the appeal of anti-vaccine sentiments from a psychological, historical, and philosophical point of view.