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Because WhatsApp is a private, closed messaging service, fake news researchers don’t have much hard data to go on. Those studying the issue are “primarily able to get information by lurking in large WhatsApp political groups or examining context clues, giving analysts ‘certainly a tiny fraction of what’s going on.'” —
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Brazil,
disinformation,
Fake news,
messaging apps,
misinformation,
WhatsApp
