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Long-term resilience of online battle over vaccines and beyond
Lucia Illari, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Neil F. Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01398 https://

Long-term resilience of online battle over vaccines and beyond
What has been the impact of the enormous amounts of time, effort and money spent promoting pro-vaccine science from pre-COVID-19 to now? We answer this using a unique mapping of online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views among ~100M Facebook Page members, tracking 1,356 interconnected communities through platform interventions. Remarkably, the network's fundamental architecture shows no change: the isolation of established expertise and the symbiosis of anti and mainstream neutr…