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CrossCheck Nigeria builds on what First Draft and its partners learned about misinformation on WhatsApp from the Comprova project in Brazil.
“I don’t know where they found my phone number.”
And unlike previous efforts, WhatsApp is giving the fact-checkers an important tool to reach the public more easily.
News organizations’ audiences are increasingly moving from public social media to closed or semi-closed platforms like WhatsApp, Discord, and Facebook Groups. But there are still opportunities for good reporting on the communities we cover.
Volt started as a passion project, rode a wave of interest in Brazil for better online data stories, and today builds data-based stories and reports for a wide array of Brazilian organizations from legacy newsrooms to ad agencies.
“We realized that context and explanation, we should take those things to an almost radical level.”
“Desde un punto de vista editorial, nos dimos cuenta de que debemos llevar la contextualización y la explicación a un nivel casi radical”.
“Do ponto de vista editorial, percebemos esse contexto e explicação, [e] levamos essas coisas a um nível quase radical”.
“从编辑角度看,我们意识到这种背景和解释的重要性,我们需要把这些推进到几乎激进的程度。”
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