{"id":38586,"date":"2019-04-03T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38586"},"modified":"2019-04-03T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T11:22:25","slug":"whatsapp-now-has-a-tip-line-for-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38586","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp now has a tip line for misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN Business)<\/cite>WhatsApp has a new strategy for tackling misinformation during India&#8217;s election: crowdsourcing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The company is offering its 200 million users in India a new tip line where they can send in messages, pictures or videos they want fact-checked. A &#8220;verification center&#8221; will respond to the user, indicating whether the information is true, false, misleading or disputed. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Facebook-owned messaging app has developed the tip line, known as Checkpoint, in partnership with an Indian startup. It will be available in English and four Indian languages \u2014 Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN Business)WhatsApp has a new strategy for tackling misinformation during India&#8217;s election: crowdsourcing. The company is offering its 200 million users in India a new tip line where they can send in messages, pictures or videos they want fact-checked. A &#8220;verification center&#8221; will respond to the user, indicating whether the information is true,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}