Articles By
Ashkan Kazemi
Research Note
Research note: Tiplines to uncover misinformation on encrypted platforms: A case study of the 2019 Indian general election on WhatsApp
Ashkan Kazemi, Kiran Garimella, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Devin Gaffney and Scott A. Hale
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 crowd-sourced tipline through which users can submit content (“tips”) that they want fact-checked.