Tattle offers an open‑source suite of tools that collect, classify, and visualize misinformation and harmful content circulating on Indian messaging platforms and social media.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Online misinformation spreads rapidly on private and encrypted messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, making it difficult for researchers, technologists, and the public to detect, analyze, and respond to harmful content in a timely manner.
Solution
Tattle provides an open‑source suite of tools that collect, classify, and visualize inaccurate or harmful content circulating in Indian digital ecosystems. The platform aggregates data from chat apps and social media, applies language‑specific detection models, and presents the results through dashboards and APIs that can be customized for research or response initiatives. By licensing its code under GPL and its fact‑checking datasets under open data licenses, Tattle enables anyone to reuse, adapt, and extend the technology for local contexts. The project also offers community‑driven moderation workflows that allow volunteers and organizations to flag, verify, and mitigate misinformation. Through paid contracts, Tattle supports organizations in data analysis, tool customization, and privacy‑preserving data management while sustaining the open‑source infrastructure.
Target Audience
Primary users are researchers, NGOs, media fact‑checking organizations, and technology teams building civic‑tech solutions that need open tools to monitor and respond to misinformation in India.
Features
- Open‑source codebase (GPL) for misinformation detection, searchable archives, and analysis pipelines
- Data collection adapters for WhatsApp and other chat applications, including encrypted network handling
- Machine‑learning models tuned to Indian languages for automated harmful‑content classification
- Interactive dashboards and APIs that expose real‑time trends, geographic spread, and source attribution
- Community moderation interface that lets volunteers flag, verify, and annotate suspect content
- Open data licensing (ODbL, Creative Commons) enabling reuse of fact‑checking datasets across projects