Expert teams or developers look for rumors and identify fake news on social media platforms like WhatsApp. They develop apps that may be able to tell you whether the message is fake or not.
Ponnurangam Kumaguru, Associate Professor of Computer Science from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D) is the team leader who developed an application that can detect the authenticity of messages circulating on this platform.
As reported by Timesofindia, the issues circulating in WhatsApp have triggered incidents involving mob mafia, including where five people were hanged on suspicion of kidnapping children in the village of Maharashtra Rainpada.
Recently a man was beaten to death or killed and three others wounded in karnataka after citizens attacked them with the same suspicion.
The professor feels that the app will be a useful tool in current trials, when a number of such incidents have been reported where people died in violence, triggered on the basis of issues circulating in WhatsApp.
"We collected large amounts of data and have asked people to forward our message on 9354325700. This message can be analyzed and so will develop a model to place a protector on such messages," said the professor.
Ponnurangam Kumaguru, Associate Professor of Computer Science from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D) is the team leader who developed an application that can detect the authenticity of messages circulating on this platform.
As reported by Timesofindia, the issues circulating in WhatsApp have triggered incidents involving mob mafia, including where five people were hanged on suspicion of kidnapping children in the village of Maharashtra Rainpada.
Recently a man was beaten to death or killed and three others wounded in karnataka after citizens attacked them with the same suspicion.
The professor feels that the app will be a useful tool in current trials, when a number of such incidents have been reported where people died in violence, triggered on the basis of issues circulating in WhatsApp.
"We collected large amounts of data and have asked people to forward our message on 9354325700. This message can be analyzed and so will develop a model to place a protector on such messages," said the professor.
