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. 2022 Jun 21;24(6):e38423. doi: 10.2196/38423

Table 3.

Average social media engagement of COVID-19 vaccine fact-checking Facebook posts across information sources.

Category Third-party fact checker Health media Hospital News media
Average followers 538,028 2,193,198 15,639 6,619,852
Posts (N=12,553), n (%) 1523 (12.1) 288 (2.3) 4921 (39.2) 5821 (46.4)
Likes, mean (SD) 231.55 (587.35) 252.07 (1039.86) 24 (162.96) 828.88 (2,774.68)
Comments, mean (SD) 125.1 (228.83) 144.38 (320) 9.39 (150.71) 268.67 (781.04)
Shares, mean (SD) 100.14 (476.54) 125.02 (398.62) 27.07 (650.73) 143.72 (576.06)
Love, mean (SD) 7.66 (58.81) 10.77 (31.86) 3.34 (33.04) 85.22 (504.1)
Wow, mean (SD) 9.7 (33.28) 10.3 (44.35) 0.16 (1.62) 52.96 (290.61)
Haha, mean (SD) 50.08 (184.47) 33.14 (89.59) 1.32 (42.64) 124.23 (581.05)
Sad, mean (SD) 10.67 (42.26) 8.4 (38.94) 0.5 (6.86) 54.49 (317.71)
Angry, mean (SD) 43.56 (194.11) 10.24 (32.22) 0.51 (10.83) 152.27 (801.37)
Care, mean (SD) 1.2 (5.91) 2.75 (10.14) 0.98 (11.66) 7.26 (26.45)