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Extremism Online | Essay Series
July 28, 2021
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
by Meghna Rao
May 25, 2021
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
by Jeff Ernst
May 11, 2021
On November 3, 2020, Hurricane Eta made landfall in Honduras, flooding the valley surrounding the northern city of San Pedro…
How WhatsApp became a tool for Indian police to fight harassment | Rest of World
by Mahima Jain
April 22, 2021
Last year, a 22-year-old college student in Hyderabad, India, approached one of his female classmates and asked if she’d be…
The disinformation threat to diaspora communities in encrypted chat apps | Brookings Institute
by Jacob Gursky, Martin J. Riedl, and Samuel Woolley
March 22, 2021
Amid the deluge of misinformation surrounding last year’s presidential election in the United States, voters across the country encountered persistent…
Ethical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research: Considerations in Democratic Contexts | The Carter Center
by Connie Moon Sehat and Tarunima Prabhakar, with Aleksei Kaminski
March 18, 2021
“Closed” messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram have grown in reach and adoption in recent years and have…
Spanish-language misinformation dogged Democrats in U.S. election | Reuters
by Christopher Bing, Elizabeth Culliford & Paresh Dave
November 9, 2020
Spanish-language misinformation flourished online in the days surrounding the U.S. election, even as social media companies moved to stem falsehoods…
Encrypted Propaganda: Political Manipulation Via Encrypted Messaging Apps in the United States, India, and Mexico | Center for Media Engagement
by Jacob Gursky, Katlyn Glover, Katie Joseff, Martin J. Riedl, Jimena Pinzon, Romi Geller & Samuel C. Woolley
October 28, 2020
Encrypted messaging applications (EMAs) such as Signal, Telegram, Viber, and WhatsApp have experienced a usership boom in recent years. This…
A Bilingual Tool That Fights Misinformation On WhatsApp | NPR
by Michel Martin
October 27, 2020
As we get closer to Election Day, you might be noticing a spike in the amount of misinformation and disinformation…