An analysis of over 8K messages by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)

Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World: An analysis of over 8K messages by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India  —  An analysis of more than 8,000 messages by Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University finds the Meta-owned platform is a thriving illegal firearms marketplace.

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An analysis of over 8K messages by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)

Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World:
An analysis of over 8K messages by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India  —  An analysis of more than 8,000 messages by Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University finds the Meta-owned platform is a thriving illegal firearms marketplace.