WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation

Facebook will seriously consider proposals from any social science and technological perspective that propose projects that enrich our understanding of the problem of misinformation on WhatsApp. Priority areas include: 

• Information processing of problematic content
• Election related information
• Network effects and virality
• Digital literacy and misinformation
• ​Detection of problematic behavior within encrypted systems

Funding: $50,000 total 

Duration: no fixed limit 

Research Authority due date: 5.8.18