COVID-19 Vaccine Fact-Checking Posts on Facebook: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective interventions aimed at correcting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, known as fact-checking messages, are needed to combat the mounting antivaccine infodemic and alleviate vaccine hesitancy.

Objective

This work investigates (1) the changes in the public's attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines over time, (2) the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine fact-checking information on social media engagement and attitude change, and (3) the emotional and linguistic features of the COVID-19 vaccine fact-checking information ecosystem.

Methods

We collected a data set of 12,553 COVID-19 vaccine fact-checking Facebook posts and their associated comments (N=122,362) from January 2020 to March 2022 and conducted a series of natural language processing and statistical ana

SUBMITTER: Xue H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9217154 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature