WhatsApp is offering rewards for a solution to deal with misinformation in India
Jul 6, 2018, 21:46 IST
- WhatsApp is offering $50,000 to researchers to solve the problem of misinformation.
- The initiative is called the ‘WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation’.
- The recipients can use the amount as they wish, without any restrictions whatsoever.
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They’ve even named the contest, the ‘WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation’. As an added incentive, the prize amount can be used for any cause and is essentially ‘unrestricted’.
This comes after mob lynchings were instigated all over India due to a video that wasn’t even shot in the country. The government of India instructed the company to take responsibility and reprimand the situation to prevent such incidents for occuring again.
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