Psycho-linguistic Differences among Competing Vaccination Communities on Social Media

Currently, the significance of social media in disseminating noteworthy information on topics such as health, politics, and economy is indisputable. During COVID-19 pandemic, anti-vaxxers use to distribute fake news anxiety-provoking about vaccine, which may harm public. Here, we characterize psycho-linguistic features online network Twitter. For this, collected related tweets from February 2020 June 2021 analyse vaccination stance, linguistic features, characteristics. Our results demonstrated that, compared pro-vaxxers, tend have more negative emotions, narrative thinking, worse moral tendencies. This study can advance our understanding anti-vaccination movement, become critical for management policy action during after pandemic.