The Effect of Facebook Vaccine-Skeptical Content on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Effect of Facebook Vaccine-Skeptical Content on COVID-19 Vaccination Intentions

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Despite the greater potency of "fake news" on Facebook to discourage Americans from taking the COVID-19 vaccine, users' greater exposure to unflagged, vaccine-skeptical content meant the latter had a much greater negative effect on vaccine uptake.

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Jennifer Allen, Duncan Watts, David G. Rand

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