Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-
preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as …

A substantial impediment to widespread Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination is
vaccine hesitancy. Many researchers across scientific disciplines have presented countless …

Ensuring alignment, which refers to making models behave in accordance with human
intentions [1, 2], has become a critical task before deploying large language models (LLMs) …

Vaccinations are without doubt one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine, and
there is hope that they can constitute a solution to halt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic …

As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of
COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread exponentially …

Social bots have become an important component of online social media. Deceptive bots, in
particular, can manipulate online discussions of important issues ranging from elections to …

This research aims to understand the persuasion techniques used in Twitter posts about
COVID-19 vaccines by the different vaccine sentiments (ie, Pro-Vaccine, Anti-Vaccine, and …

Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy seems likely to increase mortality rates and delay the easing of
social distancing restrictions. Online platforms with large audiences may influence vaccine …

High uptake of vaccinations is essential in fighting infectious diseases, including severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that causes the ongoing …

When public health emergencies occur, a large amount of low-credibility information is
widely disseminated by social bots, and public sentiment is easily manipulated by social …