At least 10 facts in the country have their own tipline on WhatsApp near the organizations, so that users can verify them. These tiplines are verified by the International Fact-Clocking Network (IFCN). Other content including photos, videos and voice recording can be verified with the help of these organizations. They support 11 Indian languages including English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi.
Fact-checking tipline on WhatsApp in India
Fake reports can be identified by using the fact checkers on WhatsApp and the information can be verified. These are as follows.
AFP: +91 95999 73984
Boom: +91 77009-06111 / +91 77009-06588
Fact Crescendo: +91 90490 53770
Factley: +91 92470 52470
India Today: +91 7370-007000
Newschekar: +91 99994 99044
Newsmobile: +91 11 7127 9799
Quint WebQOOF: +91 96436 51818
The Healthy Indian Project: +91 85078 85079
Faith News: +91 92052 70923 / +91 95992 99372
Apart from these tiplines, IFCN has its own dedicated WhatsApp chatbot, which helps users to verify the information they get.
How to do fact-check on WhatsApp
Users will have to save these fact-checking tipline’s number in their contacts or click on their links. After this, they have to send ‘Hello’ on WhatsApp. Because these tipline is a chatbot, it takes some time to verify the information you will feed. The main objective of these fact-checking tipline is to verify the information available to users in the form of photos, videos, voice and text messages. We are giving you more information about them.
AFP: The AFP Fact check tipline is designed to check the reality of text messages, videos and photos. It supports both English and Hindi languages.
Boom : Like AFP, boom also supports English and Hindi languages. It also works in Bengali language. Users can verify them with their help, videos, audio and text with this help. Boom’s newsletter can also be subscribed.
Fact Crescando: It supports 9 languages. These include Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Odia and Tamil. Apart from verifying the information of users, it also gives information related to Covid-19.
Factley: Through this, any article, video and other content can be verified. Users can also take a subscription of Factley’s newsletter. It can only work in English.
India Today: Like Factley, India Today Group, fact check users allow their information to be submitted as messages, photos or videos. Apart from English, it also supports Hindi.
News: It works in 9 languages including English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Urdu. Through this, users can verify the suspicious messages, photos and videos received by them. Similarly, the rest of the feature checkers also help to verify the unhealthy messages received by the users.
