In India:
WhatsApp launches fact-check service to fight fake news during India polls - Reuters
The WhatsApp election: The fake news challenge to democracy | European Council on Foreign Relations
HSS - India’s WhatsApp election: political parties risk undermining democracy with technology - Queen Mary University of London
In Brazil:
Jair Bolsonaro accused of creating 'criminal network' to spread fake news in Brazil election - Telegraph
Disinformation and fake news spreads over WhatApp ahead of Brazil's presidential election | The Independent
The three types of WhatsApp users getting Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro elected | World news | The Guardian
And now in Europe:
Facebook's plan to protect the European elections comes up short
Is Facebook doing enough to combat fake news? | Europe| News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 05.05.2019
In response, some steps have been made:
WhatsApp restricts message-sharing to fight fake news - BBC News
WhatsApp warns users of forwarded texts to stop 'deadly fake news' hoaxes - The Sun
WhatsApp is fighting fake news with this helpful new feature - Mirror Online
However, the Avaaz campaign group doesn't think this is enough - in a message sent out today:
Dear friends in the UK,
Whether it's refugees receiving more MONEY than British
pensioners, millions of Turkish people migrating to the UK, or even rumours
of a lorry attack in the heart of London's Oxford St.
In Europe, WhatsApp
and other social networks are flooded with posts like these,
and they have one element in common: they’re
completely false!
But together we can stop those who try to manipulate us ahead of
the critical European elections in weeks -- simply by all of us becoming “WhatsApp Detectives” and
help us find the biggest lies spreading on WhatsApp so we can flag them to
the platform and the media.
There are over 1.8 million Avaazers in the UK and if you use
Whatsapp, join us now:
Just click below and send us a message saying “Hi!”. And
we’ll send you any info you might need to help us :) +447480800288
WhatsApp wants to stop the spreading of disinformation and lies
and challenge those who spread it, but if
nobody notifies them about their existence, they can’t do anything about it.
Extremists are using our social media feeds to scare us, make us
angry so we turn against each other - the upcoming European elections could
be a key moment where either we let them win or we fight back to protect our
democracy.
Click below to help us counter hate before the elections! After
you send us a message, you will receive further instructions on how to flag
suspicious content. Here’s what you do:
The Avaaz team will monitor the number continuously and work
together with fact-checkers and partners to investigate the tips that are
coming in so we can expose the fakes, report on them and make sure that
Whatsapp takes action. Join the WA detectives now:
After 40,000 of us donated, Avaaz put in place a team of over 60
analysts, researchers, journalists and campaigners to fight misinformation
and hate messages on social networks. It's been in the media and the
platforms are under a lot of pressure. If thousands of us now join the
fight, we can defend our democracies.
With hope and determination,
Pascal, Nick, Luca, Martyna, Martin, Anneke, Christoph and
everyone at Avaaz.
MORE INFORMATION:
Spanish WhatsApp users reportedly flooded with
‘disinformation and hate’ ahead of elections (Venture Beat)
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/26/spanish-whatsapp-users-reportedly-flooded-with-disinformation-and-hate-ahead-of-elections/ Europe’s most hackable election (Politico) https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-most-hackable-election-voter-security-catalonia-european-parliament-disinformation/ Viral image about pensioners and refugees is wrong on every single number. (Fullfact) https://fullfact.org/online/pensioners-refugees-benefits/ What happened at Oxford Circus? Police explain incident that was initially treated as 'terror' (The Independent) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/oxford-circus-incident-what-happened-attack-terror-police-met-latest-updates-a8074751.html Media Sunday Express admits '12m Turks coming to UK' story was inaccurate. (The Guardian) https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jun/20/sunday-express-admits-12m-turks-coming-to-uk-story-was-inaccurate WhatsApp Legal Info https://www.whatsapp.com/legal?eea=1&lang=en
Promoted by N Flynn on behalf of Avaaz Campaigns UK, a company incorporated
in England & Wales under company registration #09475510 and whose
registered address is at 49-51 East Rd, London N1 6AH.
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