{"id":104364,"date":"2018-07-24T18:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T18:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=104364"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:15:10","slug":"whatsapp-is-giving-away-50000-to-people-who-answer-this-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/whatsapp-is-giving-away-50000-to-people-who-answer-this-question\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp is giving away $50,000 to people who answer this question"},"content":{"rendered":"

WhatsApp will offer a $50,000 prize to those who effectively answer this question: <\/span>\u201cWhat would you do to end fake news?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Facebook has created the WhatsApp Research Awards (<\/span>WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation<\/b>) with the aim to end hoaxes and lies spread virtually on this popular app.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Want to make $50,000? Anybody can enter the competition (whether you have programming knowledge or not), but <\/span>you have to propose a research project that tries to block fake news,<\/b> while ensuring the correct use of technology. This last requirement implies subtopics such as the handling of information, the way to process sensitive content and how to timely detect inappropriate behavior. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe welcome proposals from any social science or related discipline that <\/span>foster insights into the impact of technology<\/b> on contemporary society in this problem space. The WhatsApp Research Awards will provide funding for independent research proposals that are designed to be shared with WhatsApp, Facebook, and wider scholarly and policy communities,\u201d explains Facebook. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Besides this prize, Facebook will prepare<\/span> two workshops related to fake news<\/b>. In the first, chosen projects will be presented, while the second will deal with the practical application of these ideas. <\/span><\/p>\n

You have until <\/span>August 12<\/b>\u00a0to submit. For more information, <\/span>here\u2019s the official website for the prize<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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WhatsApp will offer a $50,000 prize to those who effectively answer this question: \u201cWhat would you do to end fake news?\u201d Facebook has created the WhatsApp Research Awards (WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation) with the aim to end hoaxes and lies spread virtually on this popular app. Want to make $50,000? Anybody … Continue reading “WhatsApp is giving away $50,000 to people who answer this question”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":105131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1082,2333,1083,1040,1043],"usertag":[790],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-104364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-android","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwhatsapp","tag-ios","tag-messaging-apps","tag-whatsapp","usertag-whatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327634,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104364\/revisions\/327634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104364"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=104364"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=104364"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=104364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}