Infodemic Report: Vaccines in May 2023

We discuss the hashtag that would not “die suddenly,” spikes in tweets about vaccines and Canadian politics, and influential false or misleading claims.

E. Rosalie
BeingWell
Published in
14 min readMay 21, 2023

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The definitions and information about data sourcing can be found in the Appendix. Resources used for graphs are linked when referenced in the text. The findings in this analysis led us to draft an accompanying article: Ghouling, a trend of unspeakable cruelty.

A sharp surge in tweets…

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E. Rosalie
BeingWell

Disasters & information (public health + nat sec) | Johns Hopkins alum | @COVID19Tracking alum | Mapping medical misinfo 💉 and information disorder