Rhys Leahy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4982896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rhys Leahy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rhys |
| FAMILY NAME | Leahy |
| SIGNATURE | LEAHY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5363-630X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Connectivity Between Russian Information Sources and Extremist Communities Across Social Media Platforms
The current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine is accompanied by disinformation and propaganda within the digital ecosystem of social media platforms and online news sources. One month prior to the conflict's February 2022 start, a Special Report by the U.S. Department of State had already highlighted concern about the extent to which Kremlin-funded media were feeding the online disinformation and propaganda ecosystem. Here we address a…
The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Connectivity Between Russian Information Sources and Extremist Communities Across Social Media Platforms
The current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine is accompanied by disinformation and propaganda within the digital ecosystem of social media platforms and online news sources. One month prior to the conflict's February 2022 start, a Special Report by the U.S. Department of State had already highlighted concern about the extent to which Kremlin-funded media were feeding the online disinformation and propaganda ecosystem. Here we address a…
The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Connectivity Between Russian Information Sources and Extremist Communities Across Social Media Platforms
The current military conflict between Russia and Ukraine is accompanied by disinformation and propaganda within the digital ecosystem of social media platforms and online news sources. One month prior to the conflict's February 2022 start, a Special Report by the U.S. Department of State had already highlighted concern about the extent to which Kremlin-funded media were feeding the online disinformation and propaganda ecosystem. Here we address a…
Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Vaccination (2 works) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (2 works) · Virology (2 works) · Biology (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work) · Civil liberties (1 work) · Competition (biology) (1 work)