Antonia Egli
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Antonia Egli is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of computational social science, public health communication, and digital misinformation. Her scholarship focuses on the role of automated software programs and social bots in shaping online health discourse, with particular attention to anti-vaccine movements on social media platforms. Egli's research has made meaningful contributions to our understanding of how automated actors infiltrate and amplify public health debates, potentially eroding trust in health institutions and legitimate medical guidance. Her most notable work examines the #antivaxx discourse on Twitter, both before and after the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, revealing how bots and automated messaging tools are strategically deployed — sometimes even by influential accounts — to spread vaccine hesitancy narratives. Her 2021 paper "Bad Robot" offered one of the earlier empirical investigations into bot prevalence within COVID-era anti-vaccination conversations, accumulating citations that signal its value as a foundational reference in the field. Her follow-up 2025 study extends this inquiry by interrogating the more nuanced, benevolent framing of automated tactics by influencers. Egli's research offers students and public health practitioners critical tools for identifying and countering coordinated inauthentic behavior online.
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