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Maintaining Privacy While Collecting WhatsApp Data: Insights from Research Associate Pallab Deb in India
12/10/24
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Maintaining Privacy While Collecting WhatsApp Data: Insights from Research Associate Pallab Deb in India
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Challenges in Analyzing WhatsApp Data: Insights from Research Associate Qazi Firas in India
11/25/24
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Challenges in Analyzing WhatsApp Data: Insights from Research Associate Qazi Firas in India
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Making the Political Personal
5/15/24
For our first investigation we partnered with Srishti Jaswal and Rest Of World for a case study on how India’s Bharatiya Janata Party used WhatsApp’s loose approach to political groups to spread propaganda in one Indian town.
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Making the Political Personal
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Welcome to WhatsApp Watch
5/13/24
Over the next 12 months we will be persistently monitoring what is being shared in publicly accessible WhatsApp Groups in countries across the world.
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Welcome to WhatsApp Watch
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AI Insights Forum on Capitol Hill
11/1/23
Digital Witness Lab Lead, Surya Mattu, attended a session on AI with lawmakers.
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AI Insights Forum on Capitol Hill
U.S. Sentate, Washington, D.C.
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Announcing our first Pulitzer Fellow
1/1/23
Srishti Jaswal will conduct data collection and analysis as part of Digital Witness Lab’s ongoing WhatsApp Watch investigative project.
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April 24, 2024
Announcing our first Pulitzer Fellow
New York
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Princeton's Digital Witness Lab Will Investigate How WhatsApp Misinformation Affects Elections Abroad
11/29/22
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has launched the Digital Witness Lab to examine the societal implications of technology and the role of algorithms.
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Princeton's Digital Witness Lab Will Investigate How WhatsApp Misinformation Affects Elections Abroad
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May 15, 2024
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Making the Political Personal: How The BJP Spread Their Message Through WhatsApp in an Indian Town
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In the Age of False News: a Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
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The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open
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The data collection app at the heart of the BJP’s Indian election campaign
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Inside the BJP’s WhatsApp machine
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Data journalists learn from photojournalists
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May 17, 2024
Making the Political Personal: How The BJP Spread Their Message Through WhatsApp in an Indian Town
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May 3, 2024
In the Age of False News: a Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
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May 11, 2024
A video helped incite the murder of a prominent Bangalore journalist, we investigated its spread on social media
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The Internet Is Turning Into a Data Black Box. An ‘Inspectability API’ Could Crack It Open
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The data collection app at the heart of the BJP’s Indian election campaign
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