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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Jaipur, a question for WhatsApp: How to track the source? -Karishma Mehrotra

In Jaipur, a question for WhatsApp: How to track the source? -Karishma Mehrotra

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-The Indian Express

They discussed verification methods through news searches, reverse image searches and fact-checking organisations as well as technical features.

The question came up again and again. “If a WhatsApp message comes to the police, how can we find the original sender of the message?” asked Naveen Rana, an IT cell member from the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police in Jaipur. “If we don’t have the data, how can we share it?” Pragya Misra Mehrishi, WhatsApp’s India policy communications manager, responded.

After being informed about “encryption,” which prevents the company from seeing the content of WhatsApp messages, Rana asked: “Isn’t there any other option?” Mehrishi replied: “Sir, I’m trying to help you understand. We can’t see the content. It’s not that we don’t want to give it.”

On Monday, in a two-hour workshop conducted in Jaipur, the company’s local NGO partner Digital Empowerment Foundation presented the WhatsApp-developed “fake news curriculum” to an audience of around 100 police officers, IT professionals, law students, and community members. They discussed verification methods through news searches, reverse image searches and fact-checking organisations as well as technical features.

Launched in September, the partnership has conducted 18 workshops funded by WhatsApp for a total of 1,300 people in at least two districts each of the five election states: Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana. They aim to expand to states that “have seen disturbing incidents of fake news”, such as Assam, Maharashtra and Karnataka, by March, said DEF founder Osama Manzar.

In a survey with over 1,000 respondents across rural India released this month, DEF found that over half of them believed that viral WhatsApp messages could lead to incidents of violence. Less than five per cent said they question the sender about information in messages labelled as “Forward”. And over 60 per cent said there is rarely ever a source mentioned for the news they receive on WhatsApp. “They understand the concept of fake news but there is still a vacuum (in understanding) the gravity that news can have,” DEF media and communications head Ravi Guria, who is heading the partnership with WhatsApp, said. “It’s not just about one person forwarding a message.”

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The Indian Express, 20 November, 2018, https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/in-jaipur-a-question-for-whatsapp-how-to-track-the-source-5454626/


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