Data Modelling

Data Binning

Category	Count
Social-political context	95
Economic context	35
Racial context	40
Religious context	10
Cultural context	17
None	18

The manual binning process involves categorizing online content based on keywords related to race, religion, culture, economy, and socio-politics. By examining these categories in the context of COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories, researchers have found that the social-political context plays a significant role in their spread. This introduction explores the outcomes of binning and highlights the importance of the social-political factor in the proliferation of these theories.

The results show that the most common conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines are related to the social-political context. This is consistent with the results of the time series analysis, which showed that the number of tweets about COVID-19 vaccines has increased over time. The results of the binning and time series analysis suggest that social-political context is a significant factor in the spread of conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines.

Topic Clustering Using LDA and t-SNE

The data modeling process involved topic clustering using LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) and T-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) techniques. The resulting clusters revealed distinct topics, including concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy, doubts about the motives behind vaccine mandates, reports of adverse effects, and alternative prevention strategies.

Topic 1

“COVID-19 vaccines are deadly, there are cases that these have caused death and injury even to the vaccinated.”

Topic 2

“If the vaccines are truly safe and effective, then why did the president had the COVID-19?”

Topic 3

“The vaccine mandate is only pushed by the elites and the mainstream media continues to cover up the truth. These are NOT safe. They cause death and injury.”

Topic 4

“Stop the vaccines! There have been cases when the vaccinated got paralyzed.”

Topic 5

“We don’t need COVID-19 vaccines, we only need to listen to Peter McCollough (an American cardiologist) to prevent COVID and top stop infection.”