Social media and public perception as core aspect of public health: The cautionary case of @realdonaldtrump and COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: The social media milieu in which we are enmeshed has substantive impacts on our beliefs and perceptions. Recent work has established that this can play a role in influencing understanding of, and reactions to, public health information. Twitter, in particular, appears to play a substantive role in the public health information ecosystem. From July 25th, 2020 to November 15th, 2020, we collected weekly tweets related to COVID19 keywords and assessed their networks, patterns and properties. Our analyses revealed the dominance of a handful of individual accounts as central structuring agents in the networks of tens of thousands of tweets and retweets, and thus millions of views, related to specific COVID19 keywords. These few individual accounts and the content of their tweets, mentions, and

SUBMITTER: Fuentes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8099101 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature