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Messaging app analysis

Explore 9 projects in the Messaging app analysis category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

The rise of digital disinformation has led to a burst of projects dedicated to understanding how misinformation moves on (typically closed and often encrypted) messaging apps

9 projects

Stateless Election Technologies

We believe in strengthening and protecting people’s voices via proven quality technology and operational expertise – including election monitoring, voting systems, and data-driven outreach.

Europe

Whatsapp Link Extractor

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

London
WhatsApp

Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2023
Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, reports

WhatsApp archiver

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database

India

Cazadores de Fake News

Somos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.

Venezuela
Telegram, WhatsApp

Monitor do WhatsApp

This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.

Minas Gerais
WhatsApp

Doublethink Labs

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

Taipei City, Taiwan
LINE
https://cofacts.g0v.tw/ActiveOpen-source

Cofacts

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

Taiwan
LINE

Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

London
WhatsApp