The backstory of why Modi-Shah don’t agree with ‘Yogi-Yogi kehna hoga’
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Hartosh Singh Bal Sravasti Dasgupta

All election ads require pre certification from Election Commission of India. But on the front page of The Indian Express we get ram mandir and promise of more religious structures.

Little sister Shreya Shrivastava graduated with LLM in global health law from Georgetown Law . We are a proud family.

Hello everyone,I am a journalist covering hate crimes against minorities. I got admission in MS Data Journalism at Columbia University & got $50k scholarship. But I am still short of funds. I will be grateful if you can connect me with organisations that can help fund my studies.

An accompanying thread by Kumar Sambhav :

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A deep dive into WhatsApp university -- enter at your own risk:

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The anatomy of BJP's Whatsapp Uni: must read for anyone working on elections.

Thank you Digital Witness Lab and Rest of World This takes knowledge, time and resources but it’s exactly what we need more of….

🔴 How Modi and the BJP turned WhatsApp into an election-winning machine

A pivotal investigation by Rest of World with Digital Witness Lab and Pulitzer Center

ह्वाट्सऐप समूहों का उपयोग सत्ताधारी दल भाजपा ने किस तरह अपने संदेश फैलाने के लिए किया है इसकी पड़ताल Digital Witness Lab पर Surya Mattu
और Micha Gorelick @[email protected] ने की है। रिपोर्ट पठनीय है।

Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy Kumar Sambhav

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Colleagues from Digital Witness Lab, Rest of World and Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network studied for over six months messages from 20 WA groups in the town of Mandi to understand how BJP’s WA infrastructure reacts during prime political events. Methodology: digitalwitnesslab.org/outputs/how-th…

Terrifying new report on the scale of the BJP's whatsapp operations.

'A BJP worker told Rest of World he had a volunteer team of 500 members running social media operations in Mandi'... in a town with a population of 26,000

The first story is out! We at DiWi spent six months monitoring and analysing BJP-affiliated WhatsApp Groups in Mandi, HP. This is what we found:

The finding that surprised us the most was how well coordinated the messaging was between official political groups and unofficial ‘surrogate’ groups.
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Our first investigation is out! We partnered with Rest of World to study how the BJP used WhatsApp for political campaigning in a small town in India. Summary of our analysis and findings :  
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At Pulitzer Center we are proud partners of Digital Witness Lab. Follow them & be on the look out for a story about India’s election (coming up tomorrow) that is part of our collaboration. 🙌

Please follow Digital Witness Lab, they developed an interesting tool- WhatsApp Watch, that can help you understand how the App is used during national elections to spread misinformation and target voters.

DiWiLab is here.