People who rely on Facebook for their news are slightly more likely to reject the COVID-19 vaccine than people who rely on Fox News, a survey conducted by the Washington Post suggests.
offered its own statisticsThe Washington Post analysis said this statistic wasn't helpful in trying to understand Facebook's effect on vaccine hesitancy because it didn't compare Facebook users with non-users. The Post also noted that people use Facebook in many different ways, and that it's important to specifically look at people who rely on Facebook for their news.
The Post said its survey results weren't definitive evidence that Facebook, as a news source, causes vaccine hesitancy - people who avoid mainstream media sources may also generally mistrust scientific and governmental institutions, it said. "While we can't say that Biden is right in claiming that Facebook is actually 'killing' people, we find that relying on Facebook's informational environment is associated with lower trust in institutions, lower vaccination rates and higher vaccine resistance," the Post concluded.Read the original article on
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