Geospatial vaccine misinformation risk on social media: Online insights from an English/Spanish natural language processing (NLP) analysis of vaccine-related tweets

Danny Valdez, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez and María S. Montenegro

Social Science & Medicine, 2023, vol. 339, issue C

Abstract: Misinformation is known to affect norms, attitudes, and intentions to engage with healthy behaviors. Evidence strongly supports that Spanish speakers may be particularly affected by misinformation and its outcomes, yet current insights into the scope and scale of misinformation is primarily ethnocentric, with greater emphasis on English-language design.

Keywords: Natural language processing; Social media; Cross-cultural; Misinformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116365

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