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WhatsApp seems ready to restrict how easily messages spread in a bid to reduce misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
It would be difficult to design a social platform more optimized for disinformation than WhatsApp. Each of its best features…
For journalists, Ukraine is a WhatsApp War | Columbia Journalism Review
Lindsey Hilsum, a correspondent for Britain’s Channel 4 News, is one of the most experienced conflict reporters covering the Ukraine…
Can Facebook, now known as Meta, monopolize the metaverse? | Vox
This story is part of a Recode series about Big Tech and antitrust. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover…
Research note: Tiplines to uncover misinformation on encrypted platforms: A case study of the 2019 Indian general election on WhatsApp | HKS Misinformation Review
There is currently no easy way to discover potentially problematic content on WhatsApp and other end-to-end encrypted platforms at scale.…
How Turkey’s largest fact-checking group tackles disinformation | Al Jazeera
Istanbul, Turkey – Every day, Emre İlkan Saklica scrolls through endless social media feeds, delving into the latest trends and…
Small Platforms and the Gray Zones of Deep Extreme Speech
Abstract: Recent trends of migration to smaller social media platforms among right wing actors have raised a caution that an…
Extremism Online | Essay Series
Extremism Online In this essay series from Items, the SSRC’s digital forum, researchers examine how right-wing extremism ideologies multiply through…
When Covid misinformation comes for the family WhatsApp | Rest of World
Last July, my 80-year-old grandfather woke up in the middle of the night, unable to recognize any of the people…
How migrant caravans are organized—and scammed—via Facebook and WhatsApp | Rest of World
On November 3, 2020, Hurricane Eta made landfall in Honduras, flooding the valley surrounding the northern city of San Pedro…