New study examines vaccination misinformation on social media

Research conducted by Assistant Professor Jessie Chin’s Adaptive Cognition and Interaction Design Lab (ACTION) in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign provided the foundation for an article recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Ph.D. student Tre Tomaszewski is the first author on the peer-reviewed article, “Identifying False Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Information and Corresponding Risk Perceptions from Twitter: Advanced Predictive Models.”