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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has increased concerns about vaccine uptakerequired to overcome the pandemic and protect public health. A critical factorassociated with anti-vaccine attitudes is the information shared on socialmedia. In this work, we investigate misinformation communities and narrativesthat can contribute to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. During the pandemic,anti-science and political misinformation/conspiracies have been rampant onsocial media. Therefore, we investigate misinformation and conspiracy groupsand their characteristic behaviours in Twitter data collected on COVID-19vaccines. We identify if any suspicious coordinated efforts are present inpromoting vaccine misinformation, and find two suspicious groups - onepromoting a 'Great Reset' conspiracy which suggests that the pandemic isorchestrated by world leaders to take control of the economy, with vaccinerelated misinformation and strong anti-vaccine and anti-social messages such asno lock-downs; and another promoting the Bioweapon theory. Misinformationpromoted is largely from the anti-vaccine and far-right communities in the3-core of the retweet graph, with its tweets proportion of conspiracy andquestionable sources to reliable sources being much higher. In comparison withthe mainstream and health news, the right-leaning community is more influencedby the anti-vaccine and far-right communities, which is also reflected in thedisparate vaccination rates in left and right U.S. states. The misinformationcommunities are also more vocal, either in vaccine or other discussions,relative to remaining communities, besides other behavioral differences.

COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Campaigns and Social Media Narratives