Percent of posts with select child-related keywords that mention or depict children
Keyword
True positive (%)
Baby
14.2
Boy
8.0
Girl
5.9
Child
38.0
Childhood
6.3
Pediatric
24.7
Preschool
71.5
Teenager
37.9
Toddler
61.2
Youth
34.3
Overall
26.0
Declarations
Acknowledgments
The authors thank NVIDIA for providing computational resources as part of the NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Program. We also thank our collaborators in the ASP3IRE center for providing content expertise during data collection. Finally, thank you to our student workers for labeling more than 200,000 posts.
Author contributions
AL: Writing—original draft. MM, DJ, MLK, and PH: Writing—review & editing.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
Not applicable.
Consent to participate
Not applicable.
Consent to publication
Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets described in this study can be downloaded from Twitter (X). Due to X developer agreement restrictions, the authors are unable to directly share X social media posts or make these posts publicly available. The methods described in this manuscript will be publicly available in the GitHub repository (https://github.com/larkinandy/ChildrensHealthSocialMediaASP3IRE).
Funding
Support for this research was provided by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health [P2C ES033432]. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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