Evidence of disorientation towards immunization on online social media after contrasting political communication on vaccines. Results from an analysis of Twitter data in Italy

no code implementations • 31 Dec 2019 • Samantha Ajovalasit, Veronica Dorgali, Angelo Mazza, Alberto D'Onofrio, Piero Manfredi

Using a sentiment analysis on tweets posted in Italian during 2018, we aimed to: (i) characterize the temporal flow of vaccines communication on Twitter (ii) evaluate the polarity of vaccination opinions and usefulness of Twitter data to estimate vaccination parameters, and (iii) investigate whether the contrasting announcements at the highest political level might have originated disorientation amongst the Italian public.

Misinformation Sentiment Analysis +1