Pranav is a senior editor at Engadget responsible for handling news coverage during west coast hours.
— about half the world’s population — in 64 countries including large democracies like the US and India , will head to the polls. Social media companies like, have promised to protect the integrity of those elections, at least as far as discourse and factual claims being made on their platforms are concerned. Missing from the conversation, however, is closed messaging app WhatsApp, which now rivals public social media platforms in both scope and reach.
Despite that scale, Meta’s focus has mostly been only on Facebook when it comes to election-related safety measures. Mozilla’sfound that while Facebook had made 95 policy announcements related to elections since 2016, the year the social network came under scrutiny for helpingand foster extreme political sentiments. WhatsApp only made 14. By comparison, Google and YouTube made 35 and 27 announcements each, while X and TikTok had 34 and 21 announcements respectively.
“WhatsApp is one of the only technology companies to intentionally constrain sharing by introducing forwarding limits and labeling messages that have been forwarded many times,” a WhatsApp spokesperson told Engadget. “We’ve built new tools to empower users to seek accurate information while protecting them from unwanted contact, which we detail onaround platforms and elections that the company did in Brazil, India and Liberia.
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