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Challenging Covid Vaccine Misinformation on Private Social Media, with Prof. Andrew Chadwick

Social Media and Politics

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Scaling Down Vaccine Misinformation

Ya imean: People who are hesitant to challenge vaxing misinformation scale down into like minded groups where there have more closer ties. We extrapolate from this that one of the reasons why these platforms contribute to the spread of misinformation is because of the social norms of conflict avoidance. So i think it's just, it's a feature of platform, but it means we need to start with individuals and their experiences when it comes to designing anti-misinformation interventions. Ya imean; What do you think these instances of conflict avoided and kind of letting thi misinformation go unchallenged means in these kind of more personal messag gaps? Ye, look, i think that's

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