Digital Witness Lab
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We build privacy-respecting tools to access hard-to-reach data and empower public interest investigations. We're housed at @PrincetonCITP
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https://www.digitalwitnesslab.org 06-05-2024 20:02:02
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New report by Srishti on the BJP's vast volunteer network of viral WhatsApp political groups. Striking granularity of target groups. Content analysis shows opposing ideologies and parties absent. Digital Witness Lab Pulitzer Center Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/bjp-whats…
WhatsApp has become the main source of information for India’s ongoing elections. And the country’s ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny. Via Rest of World & Digital Witness Lab: restofworld.org/2024/bjp-whats…
Read the methodology by Digital Witness Lab here: digitalwitnesslab.org/outputs/how-th… By excellent Surya Mattu, Jeremy Singer-Vine, Firas Qazi and Pallab Das
#RamTemple could not bring votes to BJP. Early signals of this trend were captured by my colleagues at Digital Witness Lab while researching for our WhatsApp Watch project. The euphoria around the temple was limited to only BJP-operated WA groups. It was absent from genuine community chats.
📢 new! We, at Digital Witness Lab, are launching WhatsApp Trend Alert Tracker. It explores coordinated social media campaigns conducted by political parties through WhatsApp groups in India during the 2024 elections. digitalwitnesslab.org/whatsapp-trend… Surya Mattu Micha Gorelick @[email protected] Firas Angie Waller
Read this cracker of a story by yashraj sharma that builds on research by Digital Witness Lab, shared exclusively with Rest of World to take you to the Wild, Wild West of WhatsApp - where researchers found 8,000 messages across 234 groups advertising guns in India. restofworld.org/2025/whatsapp-…
Glad to see Digital Witness Lab’s research leading to this explosive story! An analysis of over 8000 messages by Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University finds the Meta-owned platform is a thriving illegal firearms marketplace. Surya Mattu Pallab Angie Waller Micha Gorelick @[email protected] Firas
Grateful for the opportunity to work on the research behind this report at Digital Witness Lab! Our latest investigation uncovers how WhatsApp is being used to facilitate illegal firearms trade in India - despite platform policies.
