Covid-19: People who get info from Facebook more likely to be anti-vaccine – study | Stuff.co.nz

STUFFDeputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay respond to questions around a new mutation of Covid-19 in South Africa.People who source information from Facebook are more likely to be opposed to the Covid-19 vaccination, an unpublished study has found. University of Canterbury student Amy Morahan researched the effect traditional media and Facebook have on attitudes and intentions towards the vaccine by surveying 484 selected people nationwide. The study was done in August and September this year, and the initial findings – before the study was peer-reviewed – have been made available. Morahan showed the participants seven pro-vaccination messages and three anti-vaccination messages. READ MORE: * Covid-19: Vaccine certificate data will be legally protected, and work offline * Covid-19: Facebook could have stopped anti-vaccine comments swarming users * Covid-19: Nelson Marlborough chief medical officer addresses vaccine worries People indicated they saw all the positive messages more frequently on traditional media platforms such as newspapers and online news sites. Conversely, Morahan found the more people sourced vaccine information from Facebook, the more likely they were to hold a negative view of the vaccine. “The more knowledge you have from Facebook, the less likely you are going…
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