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Table 5 List of Facebook groups and pages for Vietnamese people living in Japan

From: Three myths of disseminating COVID-19 information to vulnerable migrants in Japan: lessons learned during the pandemic

No.

Type

Number of followers/members as of December 2020

Contact method

Outcomes of contact

1

Page A

809,000

Directly contacted a manager

Received a reply from a manager

2

Page B

729,000

Directly contacted a manager

No reply

3

Group A

312,000

Requested to join a group

Accepted

4

Group B

264,000

Requested to join a group

Accepted

5

Group C

248,000

Requested to join a group

Accepted, but the video links were deleted later by a group manager

6

Group D

184,000

Requested to join a group

Request was not accepted

7

Group E

155,000

Requested to join a group

Request was not accepted

8

Page C

152,000

Directly contacted a manager

No reply

9

Page D

149,000

Directly contacted a manager

No reply

10

Group F

143,000

Requested to join a group

Request was not accepted

  1. Facebook pages are visible to everyone, and the authors were able to directly contact each manager of the page. Facebook groups, on the other hand, are only for those who are allowed to join the group. Hence, the authors had to request to join a group to post on the timeline