How Anti-Vaxxers Manipulate Twitter To Spread Their Dangerous Message
At Wired , Renee Diresta and Gilad Lotan pose an interesting analysis of “ Anti - Vax Twitter , ” a small , cheap , and extremely coordinate group of antivaxxers using Twitter to maximize their impact on policy and public opinion . To take a closer smell at how anti - vax Twitter organizes its attack , specifically against the California legislation , we study the hashtags used by people in the web ....