Fake news has become an industry on its own, where users paid to write fake news and
create clickbait content to allure the audience. Apparently, the detection of fake news is a …

The fake news “infodemic”, facilitated by social media and mobile message sharing
platforms, has progressed from causing a nuisance to seriously impacting law and order …

WhatsApp emerged as a major communication platform in many countries in the recent
years. Despite offering only one-to-one and small group conversations, WhatsApp has been …

The spread of misinformation is a pressing global problem that has elicited a range of
responses from researchers, policymakers, civil society and industry. Over the past decade …

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. Due to its popularity, WhatsApp
has become a powerful and cheap tool for political campaigning being widely used during …

To date, there is little research to measure the scale of misinformation and understand how it
spreads on largely unmoderated platforms. Our analysis of 200,000 Telegram posts …

Brazil has one of the highest rates of cases and deaths attributed to Covid-19 in the world.
Two factors contributed to the high rates: the Brazilian government underestimated the …

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) by messaging platforms enable people to securely and
privately communicate with one another. Its widespread adoption however raised concerns …

The 2022 elections in Brazil have demonstrated that disinformation can have violent
consequences, particularly when it comes from the top, raising concerns around democratic …

There is currently no easy way to discover potentially problematic content on WhatsApp and
other end-to-end encrypted platforms at scale. In this paper, we analyze the usefulness of a …