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I first met the anti-vaxxers in the spring of last year, at the height of the measles outbreak. It was just after sunrise, in the dim light of Jamaica Station […]
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New Delhi is inching closer to recommending regulations that would require social media companies and instant messaging app providers to help law enforcement agencies identify users who have posted content […]
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data-module-name=”article.app/lib/module/wsj/breadcrumbs” Facebook Inc. is backing away from efforts to sell ads in WhatsApp, in a retreat from a controversial plan that drove the creators of the popular messaging service to […]
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Misinformation in WhatsApp seems like a black hole, especially in Africa, where health issues make falsehoods even scarier. Since June 2019, when the International Fact-Checking Network awarded a $50,000 grant to Africa […]
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In October, a group of top elected officials in western democracies wrote to Facebook expressing concern about the company’s plans to incorporate end-to-end encryption in all of its messaging products. […]
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The vast majority of false information shared on WhatsApp in Brazil during the presidential election favoured the far-right winner, Jair Bolsonaro, a Guardian analysis of data suggests. The analysis sheds […]