Anger and bots on Twitter are not affecting vaccinations in France

Misinformation is not preventing French people from getting COVID-vaccinated

BRUSSELS — Is the media overestimating the campaign against the Green Pass? A sentiment analysis, data from the French vaccination campaign, and Twitter data issue a grim verdict for those who think that social media alone can manipulate society.

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The following analysis considers only 18,000 tweets posted between 9.35 and 12.15 of July 23, 2021. The number of tweets is the limit Twitter allows to download from its free API. The level of mistrust in Macron’s proposal about making the Green Pass compulsory for restaurants and museums, among others, is overwhelming reading the following chart.

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In the chart, we see that more than 50 per cent of the sentiment has to do with anger, fear, or sadness. If one had to trust this chart, one would imagine France being rocked by the protest against Marcon’s idea of forcing people to get vaccinated or renounce going to the restaurant. Yet, this mass of tweets DaNumbers collected proves that the protests failed to gain traction.

The chart above is slightly more complicated than usual. The problem here is not the chart itself (it is just a scatterplot after all) but the method used to produce it: on the vertical axis, there is the number of retweets (nothing new: everyone knows what a retweet is). Points are single tweets. On the horizontal axis, I performed a slightly more complicated analysis.

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