Degrees of disagreement and reliability of information sources in pro- and anti-vaccination comments on
Facebook
Dorota Kotwica,
Marta Albelda Marco
Abstract:During the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the Spanish Ministry of Health shared informative posts on platforms
like Facebook, sparking heated debates. This paper utilizes a custom corpus of Facebook comments with evidential elements to
explore the disagreement and confrontation in online comments from pro- and anti-vaccine advocates. The study also analyses the
types of evidence employed by posters to support their positions, revealing potential hiera… Show more
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