Weaponized Health Communication: Twitter Bots and Russian Trolls Amplify the Vaccine Debate

Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing...

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Published in:	American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 108; no. 10; pp. 1378 - 1384
Main Authors:	Broniatowski, David A., Jamison, Amelia M., Qi, SiHua, AlKulaib, Lulwah, Chen, Tao, Benton, Adrian, Quinn, Sandra C., Dredze, Mark
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Public Health Association 01.10.2018
Subjects:	AJPH Open-Themed Research Application programming interface Automation Business communications Computer mediated communication Content analysis Data collection Debates Dictionaries False information Health Communication Health education Health information Humans Hypotheses Immunization Immunization/Vaccines Information dissemination Internet Malware Measles Media Messages Mortality Political communication Pollution Public Health Russia Social Media Social networks Software agents Vaccination Vaccination - psychology Vaccine hesitancy Vaccines World Wide Web Russia
ISSN:	0090-0036, 1541-0048, 1541-0048
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