We monitor online conversations of Italian users around vaccineson Twitter, and we provide public access to the on-going data collectionwhich will run continuously throughout the vaccination campaign taking place in Italy . We started collecting tweets matching vaccine-related keywords (in Italian) on December 20th 2020 using Twitter APIs, capturing the Italian vaccine rollout (27th December 2020), and at the time of this writing (13th January 2020) we collected over 1.8 M tweets, with an average number of 30k tweets shared on a daily basis. We report a consistent amount of low-credibility information already circulating on Twitter alongside vaccine-related conversations, whose prevalence is smaller yet comparable to high-credibility information. We believe that our data will allow researchers to understand the interplay between  public discourse on online social media and the evolution of the on-going vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 taking place in Italy .
We present VaccinItaly, a project which monitors Italian online conversations around vaccines, on Twitter and Facebook. We describe the ongoing data collection, which follows the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaign roll-out in Italy and we provide public access to the data collected. We show results from a preliminary analysis of the spread of low- and high-credibility news shared alongside vaccine-related conversations on both social media platforms. We also investigate the content of most popular YouTube videos and encounter several cases of harmful and misleading content about vaccines. Finally, we geolocate Twitter users who discuss vaccines and correlate their activity with open data statistics on vaccine uptake. We make up-to-date results available to the public through an interactive online dashboard associated with the project. The goal of our project is to gain further understanding of the interplay between the public discourse on online social media and the dynamics of vaccine uptake in the real world .
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monitor online conversations of Italian users around vaccineson Twitter, and we provide public access to the on-going data collectionwhich will run continuously throughout the vaccination campaign taking place in Italy . We started collecting tweets matching vaccine-related keywords (in Italian) on December 20th 2020 using Twitter APIs, capturing the Italian vaccine rollout (27th December 2020), and at the time of this writing (13th January 2020) we collected over 1.8 M tweets, with an average number of 30k tweets shared on a daily basis. We report a consistent amount of low-credibility information already circulating on Twitter alongside vaccine-related conversations, whose prevalence is smaller yet comparable to
present VaccinItaly, a project which monitors Italian online conversations around vaccines, on Twitter and Facebook. We describe the ongoing data collection, which follows the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaign roll-out in Italy and we provide public access to the data collected. We show results from a preliminary analysis of the spread of low- and
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information. We believe that our data will allow researchers to understand
news shared alongside vaccine-related conversations on both social media platforms. We also investigate the content of most popular YouTube videos and encounter several cases of harmful and misleading content about vaccines. Finally, we geolocate Twitter users who discuss vaccines and correlate their activity with open data statistics on vaccine uptake. We make up-to-date results available to the public through an interactive online dashboard associated with the project. The goal of our project is to gain further understanding of
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evolution of the on-going vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2 taking place in Italy
dynamics of vaccine uptake in the real world