Partisan Differences in Legislators' Discussion of Vaccination on Twitter During the COVID-19 Era: Natural Language Processing Analysis.

Eden Engel-Rebitzer Daniel C Stokes Zachary F Meisel Jonathan Purtle Rebecca Doyle Alison Meredith Buttenheim

Published in: JMIR infodemiology (2022)

Republican and Democratic legislators used different language in their Twitter conversations about vaccination during the COVID-19 era, leading to increased political polarization of vaccine-related tweets. These communication patterns have the potential to contribute to vaccine hesitancy.

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