The rise of social media

By Neil Farrington, Lee Hall, D. Kilvington, J. Price, A. Saeed. 2017

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A first look at COVID-19 information and misinformation sharing on Twitter (2020, background): “Social media is a significant conduit for news and information in the modern media environment, with one in three people in the world engaging in social media, and two thirds of those on the Internet using it [2].”
Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases (2020, background): “centered around #cdcwhistleblower and #vaxxed proponents, while pro-vaccine content primarily centered around the hashtag #vaccineswork.(19,34) Content appears to transfer between users who share similar sentiments regarding vaccination but rarely across those with differing opinions, suggesting the”
Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures (2020, background): “In 2019, both technologies reached roughly 80% of U.S. households (Ortiz-Ospina, 2019).”