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Can WhatsApp benefit from debunked fact-checked stories to reduce misinformation?

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: WhatsApp was alleged to have been widely used to spread misinformation and propaganda during the 2018 elections in Brazil and the 2019 elections in India. Due to the private encrypted nature of the messages on WhatsApp, it is hard to track the dissemination of misinformation at scale. In this work, using public WhatsApp data from […]

Source: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review

DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-035

Authors: Julio C. S. Reis, Philipe Melo, Kiran Garimella, Fabrício Benevenuto

Institutions: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Misinformation and Its Impacts

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais

OpenAlex ID: W3047438096