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Countries with lower-than-expected vaccination rates show unusually negative attitudes to vaccines on Twitter

  • Written by Jungmi Jun, Associate Professor of Information and Communications, University of South Carolina
Countries with lower-than-expected vaccination rates show unusually negative attitudes to vaccines on TwitterSocial media sites like Twitter have been a major source of both true and false information regarding COVID-19 vaccines.MicroStockHub/iStock via Getty Images

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