Study Indicates Social Media Content Moderation Drove 2021 COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign
PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD JAN 5, 2024 READ | LISTEN
Meghana and Chavali studied vaccine sentiment over time and found that Twitter was actually suppressing tweets with certain hashtags in order to influence public perception of COVID-19 vaccination. You could imagine that sentiment has a balance, some people feel benefited and others are harmed. If those harmed have their hashtags blocked then the overall profile of vaccination would look favorable.