Code and relevant files for "The Diffusion of Online Vaccine Misinformation: Fake News Publishers, Resource Access, and the Paradox of Network Embeddedness"
List of files
- misDiffusion_data_management_SN.R Data wrangling for Twitter data. It also reproduces the descriptive statistics tables and figures reported in the paper (i.e., Table 1 and Figs 4 and 5)
- misDiffusion_modeling_SN.do Panel Data modeling. It also reproduces the marginal effects and sensitivity analyses reported in the papers (i.e., Tables 2, 3, A1 and Figs 6 and 7)
- node_CLN.csv shows a “fake news publisher” website list summarized from prior literature and well-known fact-checking organizational sources. Note that this list includes mainstream media and only fake news publishers are analyzed
- site_metadata_SN.csv shows the metadata for fake news publishers. For more descriptions about these variables, please refer to the data and method section in the paper
The CoVaxxy data repository is available here: https://github.com/osome-iu/CoVaxxy. For collecting Twitter data, please see twarc (https://twarc-project.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).