Dear all, Hope everyone and your loved ones are doing well. As part of a project connected to MisinfoCon <http://misinfocon.com/> and The Carter Center <http://cartercenter.org/>, and also in conversation with the Secretariat at the Forum on Information and Democracy <https://rsf.org/en/news/eleven-organizations-civil-society-create-forum-information-democracy-structural-response>, I have been overseeing a landscape review of current practices related to researchers entering into closed messaging spaces (e.g. WhatsApp, Telegram). This landscape review is intended to inform a set of recommended practices related to closed messaging spaces to be developed in conversation among human rights practitioners, election observers, and fact-checking projects. We are seeking protocols and examples of research practices mentioned in papers, in addition to how these efforts define privacy and public discourse; the particular backdrop has been elections but can be broader. Examples of issues that we are focusing on: * how the study defines *public* and *private* * whether the size of the group matters and how * whether and how the researchers identified themselves * what protocols have been defined related to de-identification of participants, limitation of content collected, and the storage around the datasets * whether the study protocol has been reviewed by an IRB or other external organization Should you have recommendations of papers and reports to include, I would love to hear about them here or off-thread. If you are interested also in participating in the effort overall, please feel free to reach me off-thread as well. Best, Connie -- connie moon sehat connieimdialog@gmail.com https://linkedin.com/in/connieatwork PGP Key ID: 0x95DFB60E