Examining Emergent Communities and Social Bots Within the Polarized Online Vaccination Debate in Twitter

Many states in the United States allow a “belief exemption” for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines. People’s opinion on whether or not to take the vaccine can have direct consequences in public health. Social media has been one of the dominant communication channels for people to express the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaoyi Yuan, Ross J. Schuchard, Andrew T. Crooks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-09-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119865465