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SUBMITTER: Illari L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10511636 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Illari Lucia L Restrepo Nicholas J NJ Johnson Neil F NF
Scientific reports 20230920 1
Why does online distrust (e.g., of medical expertise) continue to grow despite numerous mitigation efforts? We analyzed changing discourse within a Facebook ecosystem of approximately 100 million users who were focused pre-pandemic on vaccine (dis)trust. Post-pandemic, their discourse interconnected multiple non-vaccine topics and geographic scales within and across communities. This interconnection confers a unique, system-level (i.e., at the scale of the full network) resistance to mitigations ...[more]