A 60B tweet study of anti-vaccine misinformation

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>>>We could confirm that the vaccine discussion on Twitter also largely takes place in echo chambers, where people primarily interact with users who share their views.

I am pro vaccine, anti mandate so I suppose that makes me an antivaxxer but regardless, this idea that the antivaxx community is walling themselves off in their own echo chamber is a twisted view of reality.

Twitter, Youtube and Facebook have spent the last year or more silencing and shutting down any contrarian voices regarding this subject. To now imply that the people have chosen to ensconce themselves in self serving echo chambers is like a bully asking "Why are you hitting yourself?".

I think what they are saying is that based upon ones posts/likes etc the social media algorithms display similar stuff (which is obvious, it is the way tailed advertising works). That is the echo chamber.

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