Data
Year of publication
2020
Type
Mixed-Method
Design
Cross-sectional
Classification
Other (adaption of NOVA)
Country studied
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Serbia, Sudan, the USA and Zimbabwe.
Data
Primary
Data Collected
Other (social media)
Study setting
Online
Age group of participant
N/A
Participant sex
N/A
Target population
General
Sample size
n=9 (twitter accounts)
How food companies use social media to influence policy debates: a framework of Australian ultra-processed food industry Twitter data
Goal
Identify if and how Australian UPF industry actors use Twitter to influence food and health policy debates and produce a conceptual framework to describe the influence.
Results
Top strategies UPF industry actors use on Twitter to influence food and health policy debates include co-opting public health narratives, opposing regulation, supporting voluntary, co- or self-regulation, engaging policy processes and decision-makers, linking regulatory environments to the need for ongoing profitability, affecting public perceptions and value judgemnets, using ignorance claims to distort policy narratives
Authors
Hunt D.
Journal
Public Health Nutrition
DOI
Département de Nutrition, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Montréal
2405 Chem. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC H3T 1A8
