Information Pathways and Voids in Critical German Online Communities During the COVID-19 Vaccination Discourse: Cross-Platform and Mixed Methods Analysis

Silvan Wehrli   ¹ , MSc ;   Anna-Maria Hartner   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   T Sonia Boender   ^{3, 4, 5, 6, 7} , PhD ;   Bert Arnrich   ⁸ , Prof Dr ;   Christopher Irrgang   ¹ , Dr rer nat

¹ Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

² Medical Research Council Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁴ Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁶ Amsterdam Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (AI&I), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁷ Amsterdam Public Health research institute (APH), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁸ Digital Health - Connected Healthcare, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany