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WhatsApp Trend Alert Tracker explores coordinated social media campaigns conducted by political parties through WhatsApp groups in India during the 2024 elections.

Digital Witness Lab’s WhatsApp Trend Alert Tracker documents Trend Alerts initiated by national and regional political party groups on WhatsApp in India.

A case study on how India’s Bharatiya Janata Party used WhatsApp to spread their message in a small Indian town.

Rest of World’s analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India’s ruling party so successfully uses WhatsApp to campaign without public scrutiny.

Pulitzer Fellow Srishti Jaswal reports on the extent to which Narendra Modi’s ruling party is using its Saral app to strategize ahead of the general election.

Unlike web browsers, mobile apps increasingly make it difficult or impossible to see what companies are really doing with your data. The answer? An inspectability API.

In support of Forbidden Stories’ investigation into the fatal attack of Gauri Lankesh, Digital Witness Lab investigated the spread of a video used to attack her on social media.

In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.

To meaningfully report on society, we need to be able to observe what’s taking place on social platforms without relying on their permission.