U.S. COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant adults social media and news consumption 2021
An online panel conducted in the United States in August 2021 found that 83.9 percent of respondents who did not intend to be vaccinated against COVID-19 used YouTube, whilst 74 percent of those who were vaccinated, or intended to be, used YouTube. In addition, a quarter of vaccine-hesitant respondents reported using Twitter, whilst almost 40 percent of vaccinated or planning to be vaccinated respondents reported using Twitter. For Facebook, vaccine-hesitant respondents were slightly more likely to be users of the platform, whilst Instagram was marginally more popular with vaccine-willing respondents.