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Whatsapp Link Extractor
LondonOur WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.
This is a simple app which generates a WhatsApp share link.
What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.
The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.
WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers
San FranciscoEnd-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
Menlo Park, California, United StatesFor this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp: The Widespread Use of WhatsApp in Political Campaigning in the Global South
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyThe research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.
A Voté chatbot sur WhatsApp
Paris, FranceIl assiste les utilisateurs dans leur parcours de vote : pour vérifier leur inscription sur les listes électorales, leur rappeler les dates limites pour s’inscrire, les dates des élections 2022 et la procédure pour faire une procuration.
Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.
Chequeado's WhatsApp bot
Latin AmericaLatin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Helping voters in English and Spanish
“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.”
Turn.io (previously Engage Whatsapp app)
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Change the face of social impact engagement globally
Farmer.CHAT
India (Bhārat)An AI Assistant by Gooey.AI and Digital Green to make vetted farmer knowledge accessible.
SocorroBot
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.
Connect WhatsApp with your CRM
Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAThis 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
Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram? Authenticate your preferred one with one click!
The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.
PetaBencana.id
JakartaPetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
Vote Force
San FranciscoRelational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family
People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.
Esta é uma plataforma de monitoramento de casos que levaram, puderam levar ou podem levar a bloqueios de aplicações de Internet no Brasil. Aqui se encontram materiais originais e análises, em português e inglês, de casos envolvendo bloqueios no país.
Cazadores de Fake News
Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaSomos 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.
The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.
Wappid
ColombiaA referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp
El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.
Digit Eye
India (Bhārat)Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.
Coalizão para Checagem, Eleições 2020
Brazil (Brasil)TSE coordinated a fact-checking coalition, comprising nine renowned fact-checking organizations from the media, named “Coalizão para Checagem – Eleições 2020” (Fact-Checking Coalition – 2020 Elections).
Chequea Bolivia
Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.
Checazap
Brazil (Brasil)During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.
Comprova
Brazil (Brasil)Comprova brings together journalists from 28 different Brazilian media companies to identify and explain rumors, fabricated content and manipulation tactics that might influence the 2018 presidential election campaign.
fábrica de bots
MonterreyTu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)
Praekelt.org
Johannesburg, South AfricaWhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products
211CHECK
Juba211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.
GovChat
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)GovChat is a web platform that also uses Whatsapp and USSD to allow citizens to connect with government representatives.
Grassroot
Johannesburg, South AfricaGrassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).
MobiSAM
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.
The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.
Turn
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Turn helps social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations that improve lives at scale.
Amandla Mobi
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Amandla.mobi is a platform that aims to "turn every cellphone in South Africa into a democracy tool" by using Whatsapp, SMS, USSD, Web and social networking to run multi-issue and multilingual campaigns so that people can connect and call for accountability on various matters.
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