Alleged Coordination Behind Trending Anti-Vaccine Tweets
It is suspected that the Twitter hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac that has been trending recently was coordinated. The hashtag pursues an anti-vaccine narrative and contains misleading information.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS โ It is suspected that the Twitter hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac that has been trending recently was coordinated. The hashtag pursues an anti-vaccine narrative and contains misleading information.
Tweets bearing the hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac, which promotes rejecting vaccination using the Sinovacโs CornaVac vaccine, started circulating on Twitter on Jan. 12, 2021, the day before the government started rolling out its Covid-19 mass vaccination program. The first tweet bearing the hashtag was posted at 6:53 a.m. and had become a trending topic by 10:55 a.m. By late afternoon, the hashtag was still trending with more than 12,000 tweets.