Published 13 days ago

Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections

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Social media companies like Meta, YouTube and TikTok, have promised to protect the integrity of those elections, at least as far as discourse and factual claims being made on their platforms are concerned. Missing from the conversation, however, is closed messaging app WhatsApp, which now rivals public social media platforms in both scope and reach.

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Mozilla urges WhatsApp to combat misinformation ahead of global elections

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What can WhatsApp do to curb misinformation during an election year?

Recently, Mozilla Foundation, which runs the browser Mozilla Firefox, wrote a letter to WhatsApp urging the platform to implement specific changes to the message-forwarding mechanism and tagging viral content in order to combat disinformation and misinformation in an election year. The creator of Mozilla Firefox has published a statement saying that WhatsApp isn’t doing much to detect and stop “networked disinformation and hate speech on its pla…

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