Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role

By artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 6:33pm |

Internal FB research discussed in this article: "Its early findings suggest that a large amount of content that does not break the rules may be causing harm in certain communities, where it has an echo chamber effect."

Yes.https://t.co/mn2wMLtlwf
— Renee DiResta (@noUpside) March 14, 2021

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/14/facebook-vaccine-hesistancy-qanon/

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"And in the population segment with the most vaccine hesitancy, just 111 users contributed half of all vaccine hesitant content."

Also yes. This was also true on Twitter; we observed back in 2015 that very small numbers of people produced the majority of AV tweets in a hashtag.
— Renee DiResta (@noUpside) March 14, 2021

DiRetsa Twitter bio: Stanford Internet Observatory, Mozilla Fellow alum. Interested in how narratives spread online. Prev: quant finance, VC, startups. Many opinions about SF.

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 6:40pm

DiResta also retweeted these:

It has come to my attention that noted anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is releasing a film tomorrow targeting the Black community with some appalling misinformation.

It is not just filled with falsehoods. Despite claiming to be anti-racist, it is racist as hell pic.twitter.com/J2FNRwJu7m
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) March 3, 2021

I'm constantly appalled by the blatant disrespect and unethical intellectual appropriation in service of a deeply flawed premise at the hands of RFK's group. Please get the CoVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/llH5ZYU85n
— Harriet A.Washington (@haw95) March 4, 2021

New from me and @CiCiAdams_

Anti-vaxxers are using Covid's devastation on the Black community as 'marketing," for their wider message against childhood vaccines. https://t.co/lkGw7VYlm2
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) March 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 6:44pm

the maintenance of all manner of delusions continues apace somehow despite any efforts to promote reality:

Since everyone knows Biden is suffering from dementia and can't talk to the press, the many contrary examples must be fake. https://t.co/yllat5aovu
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 03/17/2021 - 4:19pm

Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role

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