Feluda showcased at DPG Dialogues 2025

Work done by Contributors Snehil Shah and Chaithanya Kalyan was showcased at DPG Dialogues.

Uli was featured on Github Open Source Friday

Denny and Kaustubha were interviewed by Andrea from Github for their weekly show "Open Source Friday". We got to share how Uli came about, our plans for it in the future, and our take on interdisciplinary work in tech.

TrustCon 2024 - Participatory Algorithmic Moderation

We gave a presentation at TrustCon 2024 on participatory algorithmic moderation. The presentation focused on participatory processes for creating representative datasets.

Uli is a DPG now

We are thrilled to be counted as a Digital Public Good alongside many other incredible opensource projects working to achieve the SDGs.

Outstanding Paper Award for Uli!

Uli received global recognition for its unique approach to annotation. The academic write-up that explains this process received the Outstanding Paper Award at the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, held at the NAACL 2024

Thank You for Reporting: Mitigating Online Harms with Accessible Technology

This discussion was hosted at the Tinkerspace, Kerala, alongside RATI Foundation. Rati spoke about their helpline for children and women facing online harms in India, Meri Helpline, and Tattle spoke about building citizen-centric technologies against these threats.

Asia Disinformation Co-Lab

Tattle participated in the Asia Disinformation Co-Lab in Bangkok put together by Numun Fund. The event gathered researchers, activists, media practitioners, designers, and developers from across Asia and aimed to enhance analysis and action against disinformation and hate speech by exploring concrete strategies to tackle disinformation and the sharing of insights, experiences, and recommendations.

Safeguarding Information Integrity during Elections with Digital Public Goods

Feluda was featured and listed in a blog by the Digital Public Goods Alliance on DPGs that are strengthening information integrity at the critical time of elections.

AoIR Hyderabad Flashpoint Symposium 2024

Tattle took part in a panel themed on building a more just and fair internet through design, code, and content as part of the symposium that was centred on exploring forms and structures of labour contributing to digital infrastructures, content, and systems.

Launch of DAU Collaborative Platform

Collaborating with the Misinformation Combat Alliance, we're addressing the issue of manipulated media through a WhatsApp tipline (Deepfakes Analysis Unit) for querying media manipulation levels, providing assessment reports for each item. Our focus is on the collaborative platform powering the Deepfakes Analysis Unit, facilitating collective assessment among experts

Consultation on Gendered Information Disorder in India

We attended the roundtable held by Centre for Internet and Society and Point of View in Mumbai, and had some interesting discussions whereby intersectional perspectives were brought forth in an attempt to understand the impact of gender upon information disorders.

Ballots and Bots: Elections 2024 in a Digital World

We took part in an in-person event hosted by Software Freedom Law Centre that emphasized the pivotal role of technology in India's upcoming 2024 General Elections, particularly in shaping electoral processes.

Uli slur list used by IFF

Uli's slur list was used by IFF to identify real examples of gendered hate speech content in English and Hindi on Youtube and Koo

Deepfakes and Democracy

Tattle participated in a virtual event hosted by Medianama that centred on discussing the regulatory challenges and societal implications posed by deepfakes on democracy, exploring solutions and collaborative strategies

Shared Task on Gendered Abuse Detection in Indic Languages at ICON

A shared task based on the Uli Dataset to build NLP systems that detect online gender-based violence

Community-Led AI - Notes from the Trenches

Presentation at the Research Symposium of the Global Partnership on AI 2023 conference

Design Thinking Session on Digitally Manipulated Media

We published a work in progress open dataset of Manipulated Media items that spread on social media. We also published a strategy document on ways of mitigating harms by DMM

Uli UX Improvements and Security Updates

Is meaningful participation and accountability in AI possible?

A discussion centred around creating more space for participation by those outside of the tech field in the design, testing, deployment, and assessment of AI and ML models

What Do We Mean When We Say Open-Source AI

A talk at IndiaFOSS 3.0 in Bangalore about the world of Open Source AI

Community Participation in Hacktoberfest

We improved our documentation and secured 3 community merged PRs with hacktoberfest contributors in Uli

Data Cooperatives and Open Source AI

Hosted a webinar on data and ML model licencing as part of Open Source Initiative's Deep Dive AI Webinar Series

Feluda's Recognition as a DPG

Our tool, Feluda, has been officially recognised by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a DPG

Keynote at ADMS Symposium: Alternative Visions for Tech in the Age of AI

The talk focused on the importance of civic tech to healthier digital futures

DPG Open Source Community Manager Programme

Uli took part in GitHub's efforts to popularise contributions to tech projects that work for the social good

Mobile Communication and Online Falsehoods in Asia

The chapter written by Denny, Tarunima and Aditya speaks about the unique technical and social affordances of Mobile Instant Messaging Services (like WhatsApp) which, if accounted for, can result in a more productive agenda for protecting Indian citizens on these platforms

A Community-based Tool to Block Hateful Content on Social Media

Uli featured by Mozilla Foundation

TinkerHub: Future of AI in India

Tattle hosted a session on tech interventions against online harms

RightsCon Costa Rica 2023

Tattle alongside GitHub hosted a session on developing indexes on internet platform data for social sector research

Nobel Prize Summit

Feluda was one of the nine open-source solutions featured by UNDP and DPGA at the Nobel Prize Summit in Washington DC in an effort to highlight how open-source innovation is helping to address mis- and disinformation around the world and provide better access to reliable information

MisinfoCon India 2023

Tattle co-organised the first MisinfoCon conference in India in Bangalore with Meedan and Hackshackers at the Thoughtworks' Bangalore office. It was a convening of technology, policy, media, and design professionals to foster understanding and action around misinformation in India and consisted of two days of lightning talks and workshops, followed by a hackathon on the third day, touching on different aspects of trust and safety online, with a specific focus on platform research, AI and media, storytelling and misinformation response, and gendered disinformation

Digital Rights Asia Pacific 2023 Assembly

Tattle hosted two sessions: One was a playtest workshop on Viral Spiral and the second was a roundtable on the impacts and challenges of language models for South Asian Media in the present age of Mis/Disinformation

Tattle's Induction into DATALeads' Factshala Innovation Lab

Tattle being supported to develop a game centred around imparting media literacy

Putting hate speech on mute: An Indian project helps social media users filter out abuse to feel safe online

Uli featured by DW Akademie

Global AI: Reframing the Conversation

Event that focused on reframing the conversation around AI and the need to move beyond looking at AI as this all-knowing, pervasive being

Civic Tech Workshop at FLAME University

Workshop conducted with first-year Digital Humanities students at FLAME University in Pune, India, about civic tech, its role in society and how Tattle contributes to the space

Tattle's Participation at Mozfest

Included three sessions on fair compensation for data annotators, our DFL induction, and designing federated networks around user experiences

Centering Women’s Equity in Digital Technology

UN CSW event that focused on digital technology solutions for challenges that people who identify as women and girls disproportionately face globally

Tattle's Induction into the Data Futures Lab Cohort

Uli project being supported by Mozilla to develop crowdsourced datasets for the public good

Viral Spiral playtest with college students

Playtesting Viral Spiral with college students at Mathrubhumi Media School as part of a workshop facilitated by Citizen Digital Foundation

Induction into Agami's OpenNyAI Labs Cohort

Tattle's try at utilising LLMs to build an AI product

Can digital games like Viral Spiral fight fake news and misinformation?

Viral Spiral featured by Mint

Tech for Truth: Innovative Solutions

Misinformation Regulations Governance at IIT-Madras

Safe and Unsafe: How Design Choices Help Women Online

IIC Diamond Jubilee Celebrations - Digital Governance

MP Presented GFTW study's Findings at Academic Conference

Behavioural Research in Economics Workshop at IIM-Bangalore

Attended Agami Summit Convened for Idea Prize Shortlisted Members

Agami Summit 2022: Big Ideas for Justice

Ironing out Creases and Listening to Community Feedback for Viral Spiral

Viral Spiral's First Digital Playtest Session

Presentation at UNFPA Consultation

Tackling Tech-Mediated Online Gender-Based Violence

Submitted Comments on the Indian Telecommunications Bill, 2022

Open Consultation on Indian Telecommunications Bill, 2022

Initiating Community Outreach for Uli

Winning Feminist ki Batti Jalao Grant

How Tattle And Hatebase Tackle Online Misinformation And Hate Speech In Non-English Languages

Tattle Interviewed by Medianama

Medium and the message: Spread of hate through misinformation & disinformation

Challenging Hate Narratives in Asia Conference hosted by APC

Asian Innovators Fight Online Hate, Lies as Tech giants Fall Short

Tattle Featured by Reuters

Tattle's Book Club Meetings

Monthly Feature Among Tattlers Discussing a Collectively Chosen Book

Agami Idea Prize Shortlist

Agami Idea Prize Shortlist

The Truth is Out There

Mozilla IRL Podcast/ Internet Health Report

Refurbished Blog Page

Started to Maintain a New Site as a Repository of Relevant Project-related Content and Updates

Uli (OGBV Plugin) Public Launch

Opened the OGBV plugin to broader public

RightsCon Presentation

Showcasing of Uli

Hatred in the blind spot

Tattle's take on the skew in platform attention to Indian languages for a German Magazine

Viral Spiral gets Grant from PCE at the Mercatus Center

Grant from Pluralism and Civic Exchange Program at the Mercatus Center

OGBV Plugin Closed Beta

Plugin release with archiving, crowdsourcing networks and slur replacement

Countering hate in the digital world

The Indian Express

Tek Fog: Dangerous New World

The Wire

MemeBox Release

FOSS United

Facebook’s language problem

Rest of World

Between Fake and The News: The Long Game Against Information Disorder

IIT Jodhpur, Digital Humanities Series

Beyond Commerce: Working on Tech that Benefits Society

Through the Corporate Glass Podcast

Misinformation about minorities in India is widespread – and it’s getting worse

The New Statesman, UK

A Contextual Inquiry of IFCN

The Annual Meeting of the Society of Social Study of Science: Panel on Post Truth Age

Tech: Boon or Bane. Exploring the role of Big Tech in fighting Disinformation & Polarisation.

Boomlive Truth-Seekers Fest

Crowdsourcing Aid: A Case Study of the Information Chaos During India's Second Covid-19 Wave

Report Release

Check Mate: Prioritizing User Generated Multi-Media Content for Fact-Checking

ICWSM 2021

A Contextual Inquiry of The International Fact-Checking Network and Factuality on Social Media

ICWSM 2021 Workshop on Information Credibility & Alternative Realities in Troubled Democracies

Against Platform Universalism: A Case Study of Platform-Seeded Trends and Non/Algorithmic Paternalism from India

Paper presentation in First Annual Conference of The Platform Governance Research Network

Ethical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research

Paper on Ethical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research: Considerations in Democratic Contexts with Connie Moon Sehat and Aleksei Kaminski

WhatsApp and Misinformation in India

The Bachchao Project's: The Glassroom- Misinformation Edition with Tactical Tech

Machine Intelligence and Information Disorder

Winter School: Online and On The Line: Democracy in the Age of Machine Intelligence, CITAP, IIIT Bangalore

Panel on Backdoors to Encryption

NIPFP, Data Governance Network

Paper Presentation Prioritizing User-Generated Multimedia Content for Fact-Checking

Credibility Coalition

Prioritizing User Generated Content for Fact Checking

Misinformation as a Window into Prejudice: COVID-19 and the Information Environment in India

CSCW, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Anmol Panda, Divyanshu Kukreti, Azhagu Meena, Joyojeet Pal

The strange, sometimes sinister conspiracy theories on Sushant Singh Rajput’s death that flourished on social media

Venkat Ananth, ET Times

Are private chats secure?

Deccan Herald

Factchecking Sites Database Dashboard Release

Khoj App Early Release

Tattle Show and Tell

Coronavirus: The human cost of fake news in India

Shruti Menon, BBC Reality Check

Archives and Crises

International Archives Week, Milli Consortium, Archives at NCBS

Mining information from social media for fake news detection

HasGeek

Manipulative Fake News On The Rise In India Under Lockdown: Study

Prachi Salve, India Spend

Increase in Communal Tone in COVID-19 Fake News in India: Study

Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (University of Michigan)

Temporal Patterns in COVID-19 misinformation in India

Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (University of Michigan)

Khoj Archive Beta Release with Fact Checking Sites Data

Telegram Jod Bot Release

Tattle Mailing List

Troll Watch: Deep Fakes In Indian Elections

NPR

We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign

Vice

Panel on 'The Latest in The Fight Against Misinformation'

Trust and Security Roundtable, Microsoft Research and Boomlive

Open Source Tools and Archive for Tackling Misinformation on ChatApps in India

AntHill Inside, HasGeek

Data Collection and Management at Tattle

Conference for Truth and Trust Online

Considerations in Archiving Content from Encrypted Messaging Apps

Comparative Approaches to Disinformation, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University