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Meta Content Analysis: Health Communication & Misinformation on Facebook and Instagram

Language: R Platform: Meta License: MIT

Overview

Multi-platform content analysis examining health communication and misinformation on Meta platforms (Facebook and Instagram), using topic modeling and computational text analysis in R.


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Research Objectives

  • Examine health-related misinformation spread on Facebook and Instagram
  • Identify key topics and narratives using STM / LDA
  • Analyze engagement patterns across content types
  • Compare user interaction dynamics between platforms

Methodology

  1. Data Collection via CrowdTangle / Meta Content Library
  2. Preprocessing with tidytext and quanteda
  3. STM topic modeling with platform/time covariates
  4. Engagement analysis and misinformation coding

Requirements

install.packages(c("tidyverse", "tidytext", "quanteda", "stm", "ggplot2", "lubridate", "jsonlite"))

Author

Sawood Anwar — PhD in Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo | Defended: 22 September 2025

License

MIT License.

Keywords: Meta Platforms, Facebook, Instagram, Health Communication, Misinformation, STM, R

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Content analysis of Meta platform data (Facebook/Instagram) for academic research in computational communication and social media studies

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