Suffering from Vaccines or from Government? : Partisan Bias in COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events Coverage. (arXiv:2211.10707v1 [cs.CL])

Vaccine adverse events have been presumed to be a relatively objective
measure that is immune to political polarization. The real-world data, however,
shows the correlation between presidential disapproval ratings and the
subjective severity of adverse events. This paper investigates the partisan
bias in COVID vaccine adverse events coverage with language models that can
classify the topic of vaccine-related articles and the political disposition of
news comments. Based on 90K news articles from 52 major newspaper companies, we
found that conservative …

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