Classifier of topic discussed in vaccine-related content in Italian language
A monolingual model for classifying the topic discussed in vaccine-related content in Italian language. The model was trained on 36,722 and independently tested on 9,299 social media content between Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, Instagram media and YouTube videos. It is a fine-tuned version of bert-base-multilingual-cased.

Model output
The model classifies each input into one of six distinct classes:

Administration of vaccines
Vaccine business
Effectiveness of vaccination
Legal issues
Safety concerns
Other

Citation info and BibTeX entry

Dynamics and triggers of misinformation on vaccines

@article{Bru2025,
  title={Dynamics and triggers of misinformation on vaccines},
  author={Brugnoli, Emanuele and Delmastro, Marco},
  journal={PLOS ONE},
  year={2025},
  volume={20},
  number={1},
  pages={e0316258},
  doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0316258}
}

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