December, 2025
We submitted comments on the recently proposed amendment to the intermediary rules, requiring labelling of artificially generated content.
December, 2025
Denny participated in a roundtable discussion on AI Safety Commons at Conclave on Safe and Trusted AI - An Official Event of the Working Group on Safe & Trusted AI under the IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026. The agenda of the discussion was to operationalize safety into AI deployments in India.
December, 2025
Tarunima joined the working group on Evaluating AI in the social sector. She participated in the breakout discussions on model evaluations and safety.
December, 2025
Kaustubha attended a strategy lab hosted by Equality Now in London on Algorithmic Harms and Misogyny to discuss legal and policy frameworks that could help address these harms.
December, 2025
Tattle conducted qualitative analysis on AI chatbot data from two grassroots NGOs to understand safety needs. Baarish, Denny and Kritika developed a framework for safety guardrails. Kritika and Denny built three kaapi-guardrails for slur detection, removal of personally identifiable information, and reduction of gender assumptions.
November, 2025
Tarunima participated in the ‘Design ≠ Diversity panel at Access, Agency, Azaadi: The Internet We Deserve, Mumbai. She highlighted that the profit driven incentives for platforms often come in the way of them doing the right thing for young users. She also highlighted the need for spaces that allow young people to make mistakes and learn from them so that they can build confidence using technology.
November, 2025
Tarunima gave a lecture on data paradigms for Open Source AI to the GCPP cohort at Taksshila institute.
November, 2025
Kaustubha and Denny conducted an Uli workshop at a conference called Bahu Bhasa, hosted by IIITH
November, 2025
Tarunima provided opening remarks at the Roundtable on operationalizing AI safety organized by CCG at NLIU Delhi
November, 2025
Tarunima moderated 'AI Content and Reality : Safeguarding Citizens from Harmful and Misleading AI-Generated Content' at TIAcon 2025
November, 2025
Our report with RATI on deepfakes was cited in a Guardian article on the chilling effect that nudify apps are having on Indian women and how it is keeping them off the internet.
November, 2025
Baarish participated as panelist in the ARISE Panel at DCS 2025 and shared insights on Tattle’s joint advocacy work with community members in creating platform transparency.
November, 2025
Siddharth Pillai, Kaustubha Kalidindi, and Tarunima Prabhakar co-authored a report on the impact of AI on ordinary women and gender minorities navigating the online world. Report was featured in the Guardian and cited by the Internet Freedom Foundation.
October, 2025
Kaustubha attended a roundtable hosted by IT4Change and Antara Advisory, “Enabling Empowerment in Digital Times: What Next for Gender Equality?” on reimagining gender equality.
October, 2025
We spoke on 'safety by design' at a session that was part of the TFGBV Policy Dialogue Series, co-organized by UN Women and the Sexual Violence Research Initiative(SVRI). Our session focussed on advocating for embedding protective features into digital services from the outset, rather than relying on reactive measures. We shared our experience with Uli on using participatory approaches to bridge resource gaps in NLP technology and how effective use of AI for bridging those gaps.
October, 2025
Tarunima spoke at the Natural Language Processing Community of Practice (NLP-CoP) (https://merltech.org/nlp-cop/) about evaluating large language models for accuracy and inclusion.
September, 2025
POV organized a workshop for professionals working at the intersection of technology, design and society to engage in deep use research questions and applying co-creation methodology to prepare a people's blueprint for better Social Media.
September, 2025
This became the second year we setup a booth at IndiaFOSS. Along with that we gave talks and hosted panels on various topics. Tarunima did 'Free/Libre AI' (panel discussion), 'Pursuing a Policy Career in FOSS'(BoF), 'Rethinking Data Contracts for Open Source AI'(Talk) and Denny gave a Lightning Talk on 'Imagining alternative social media platforms with ActivityPub Protocol'
September, 2025
For Code for GovTech's DPM 2025, Aatman mentored community contributor Omkar Kabde on Standardizing and Enhancing the Feluda Python Packages. Improvements by Omkar made feluda more stable and reliable to use. Feluda was also made available as python package increasing its reusability. The new plugin architecture also made feluda suited for community usage.
September, 2025
Tattle conducted a workshop on safety guardrails at Tech4Dev’s AI cohort.
September, 2025
We are participating in UNDP’s AI Trust and Safety Reimagination Lab’s as a cohort member, engaging with multiple organisations around the world working to improve AI.
August, 2025
Kaustubha attended DRAPAC 2025 in Malaysia and presented Tattle’s work on building AI safety datasets in Hindi.
July, 2025
Tarunima served on the review committee for the OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium organized by Open Forum Europe.
July, 2025
Tarunima participated in a roundtable discussion on the regulation of GenAI organized by Trilegal.
July, 2025
0.1.0 release of Anno-Milli, an archival annotation platform created in collaboration with Archives at NCBS. Anno-Milli allows users to search and explore digital archival files based on their properties and add new annotations. Users can also discover approved annotations created by other users. The app is linked to the NCBS Milli Archival Space (https://milli.link/).
June, 2025
Tattle was invited by the Digital Public Good Alliance to participate at IGF. We were featured at the DPGA booth where we showcased Feluda and Uli. We also participated in a workshop on 'Defining and Building Public Interest Social Media', with discussions on protocols like ActivityPub and ATProto for reimagining social media.
June, 2025
Tarunima participated in a fireside chat at Asia Pacific EXPO Event organized by the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion
June, 2025
Tattle, along with UN peacekeeping operations and ROOST tools, organized a side event on open source tooling for information integrity during the UN Open Source Week.
May, 2025
May, 2025
Saurav conducted a workshop with the students at Sajhe Sapne on online harms in India discussing how students navigated these situations, and what form of support they were looking for.
April, 2025
Released a data annotation game, ‘An offer one can’t refuse’ on the Uli website.
April, 2025
Attended a closed-door roundtable discussion on “Online Safety of Women: Managing Risks of technology-facilitated gender based violence and examining the issue of online obscenity” organised by the Quantum Hub (TQH).
April, 2025
Tarunima participated in and presented at the symposium on ‘The Encryption Debate: Disinformation and Extreme Speech on WhatsApp, Telegram and global messaging apps’, organized by LMU Munich.
March, 2025
MisinfoCon India 2025 was a two-day cross-disciplinary conference bringing together technology, policy, media, design professionals, and learners to explore and address the growing challenges of misinformation in India. It was organised in Bangalore.
March, 2025
Tattle partnered on a conference with the University of Amsterdam and Aapti Institute, where participants explored ‘data work’ and the hidden costs associated with the development of datasets and AI systems.
March, 2025
CITR is a coalition of academics, journalists, civil society researchers, and community scientists. CITR’s mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
March, 2025
Kaustubha and Saurav joined the advisory group for the 2025 UNFPA Global Symposium on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV).
March, 2025
Aatman gave a talk at the AI for Global Development event organized by the Agency Fund.
February, 2025
Tattle was a part of two panels: 1. AI and Democracy: Battling Disinformation in Asia’s 2024 Election 2. Safety beyond surveillance: exploring survivor-informed approaches to addressing AI-generated online violence in India. We also spoke about the DAU and how it demonstrates the utility of openness to a space filled with closely guarded processes and black box MLmodels.
February, 2025
Saurav and Kaustubha conducted a workshop at Kalindi College on social media harms.
January, 2025
We released Uli Community – users can now sign up and view crowdsourced contributions from the entire community and download approved community contributions to their own machines.
January, 2025
The 'Tooling Together' event united a global consortium of experts alongside independent participants to showcase pioneering efforts in research tool development aimed at speeding up analyses of the information environment.
January, 2025
We wrote a report on evaluating Indic language capabilities of LLMs for text understanding and generation as part of work with MLCommons.
January, 2025
Tarunima spoke on a panel organized by Civic Data Lab as part of its stakeholder consultation on 'ResponsibleAI – Enabling Participatory Algorithmic Auditing'.
January, 2025
Kaustubha participated in a stakeholder consultation on the UN’s Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM) organised by UNESCO and supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in Bengaluru.
December, 2024
Feluda and its operators are now available as Python packages, making it easier to use for developers and researchers familiar with Python but not necessarily well versed in machine learning.
December, 2024
Three new languages have been added to the DAU tipline, which now supports English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi and Bengali.
December, 2024
Kaustubha participated in a roundtable panel discussion on AI regulation in Bangalore.
November, 2024
Tarunima spoke at a panel organized as a side event at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing30 review, organized by CEVAW and the Australia eSafety Commission.
November, 2024
Kaustubha delivered a lightning talk on Uli’s dataset process.
November, 2024
Tattle created a Hindi-language safety dataset on two categories of harms: hate speech and sex-related crimes, and ML Commons released v1 of their benchmark dataset.
October, 2024
We created an online module as a Knowledge Partner for the School of Campaigners, a joint initiative of Access Polity (NETRI) & Apolitical Foundation, focused on OGBV and its impact on women politicians. We conducted an online session to close the module and invited participants to take part in a crowdsourcing session, and we received slur word contributions in Filipino.
October, 2024
We built a content moderation model to detect coded speech.
October, 2024
Work by contributors Snehil Shah and Chaithanya Kalyan was showcased at DPG Dialogues — an annual convening of DPG/DPI ecosystem leaders, practitioners, and the broader open-source community to discuss ecosystem evolution, key challenges, and future strategic directions.
October, 2024
We participated in a panel discussion organized by the Council for Strategic and Defense Research.
September, 2024
We had a booth, and spoke at a panel on open source AI.
July, 2024
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.
July, 2024
We gave a presentation at TrustCon 2024 on participatory algorithmic moderation. The presentation focused on participatory processes for creating representative datasets.
June, 2024
The Deepfakes Analysis Unit, that Tattle is the technical partner to, was awarded the most innovative collaborative award.
June, 2024
We are thrilled to be counted as a Digital Public Good alongside many other incredible opensource projects working to achieve the SDGs.
June, 2024
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
June, 2024
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.
May, 2024
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.
May, 2024
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.
April, 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.
March, 2024
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
March, 2024
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.
March, 2024
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.
February, 2024
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
January, 2024
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
December, 2023
A shared task based on the Uli Dataset to build NLP systems that detect online gender-based violence
December, 2023
Presentation at the Research Symposium of the Global Partnership on AI 2023 conference
November, 2023
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
November, 2023
November, 2023
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
October, 2023
A talk at IndiaFOSS 3.0 in Bangalore about the world of Open Source AI
October, 2023
Hosted a webinar on data and ML model licencing as part of Open Source Initiative's Deep Dive AI Webinar Series
October, 2023
We improved our documentation and secured 3 community merged PRs with hacktoberfest contributors in Uli
September, 2023
Our tool, Feluda, has been officially recognised by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a DPG
July, 2023
The talk focused on the importance of civic tech to healthier digital futures
June, 2023
Uli took part in GitHub's efforts to popularise contributions to tech projects that work for the social good
June, 2023
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
June, 2023
Uli featured by Mozilla Foundation
June, 2023
Tattle hosted a session on tech interventions against online harms
June, 2023
Tattle alongside GitHub hosted a session on developing indexes on internet platform data for social sector research
May, 2023
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
May, 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
May, 2023
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
May, 2023
Tattle being supported to develop a game centred around imparting media literacy
May, 2023
Uli featured by DW Akademie
April, 2023
Event that focused on reframing the conversation around AI and the need to move beyond looking at AI as this all-knowing, pervasive being
April, 2023
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
March, 2023
Included three sessions on fair compensation for data annotators, our DFL induction, and designing federated networks around user experiences
March, 2023
UN CSW event that focused on digital technology solutions for challenges that people who identify as women and girls disproportionately face globally
March, 2023
Uli project being supported by Mozilla to develop crowdsourced datasets for the public good
March, 2023
Playtesting Viral Spiral with college students at Mathrubhumi Media School as part of a workshop facilitated by Citizen Digital Foundation
February, 2023
Tattle's try at utilising LLMs to build an AI product
February, 2023
Viral Spiral featured by Mint
January, 2023
Misinformation Regulations Governance at IIT-Madras
January, 2023
IIC Diamond Jubilee Celebrations - Digital Governance
December, 2022
Behavioural Research in Economics Workshop at IIM-Bangalore
December, 2022
Agami Summit 2022: Big Ideas for Justice
December, 2022
Viral Spiral's First Digital Playtest Session
November, 2022
Tackling Tech-Mediated Online Gender-Based Violence
November, 2022
Open Consultation on Indian Telecommunications Bill, 2022
November, 2022
Winning Feminist ki Batti Jalao Grant
November, 2022
Tattle Interviewed by Medianama
October, 2022
Challenging Hate Narratives in Asia Conference hosted by APC
October, 2022
Tattle Featured by Reuters
September, 2022
Monthly Feature Among Tattlers Discussing a Collectively Chosen Book
September, 2022
Agami Idea Prize Shortlist
August, 2022
Mozilla IRL Podcast/ Internet Health Report
July, 2022
Started to Maintain a New Site as a Repository of Relevant Project-related Content and Updates
July, 2022
Opened the OGBV plugin to broader public
June, 2022
Showcasing of Uli
March, 2022
Tattle's take on the skew in platform attention to Indian languages for a German Magazine
February, 2022
Grant from Pluralism and Civic Exchange Program at the Mercatus Center
February, 2022
Plugin release with archiving, crowdsourcing networks and slur replacement
January, 2022
The Indian Express
January, 2022
The Wire
December, 2021
FOSS United
November, 2021
Rest of World
October, 2021
IIT Jodhpur, Digital Humanities Series
October, 2021
Through the Corporate Glass Podcast
October, 2021
The Annual Meeting of the Society of Social Study of Science: Panel on Post Truth Age
October, 2021
The New Statesman, UK
July, 2021
Boomlive Truth-Seekers Fest
July, 2021
Report Release
June, 2021
ICWSM 2021
June, 2021
ICWSM 2021 Workshop on Information Credibility & Alternative Realities in Troubled Democracies
March, 2021
Paper presentation in First Annual Conference of The Platform Governance Research Network
March, 2021
Paper on Ethical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research: Considerations in Democratic Contexts with Connie Moon Sehat and Aleksei Kaminski
March, 2021
The Bachchao Project's: The Glassroom- Misinformation Edition with Tactical Tech
December, 2020
Winter School: Online and On The Line: Democracy in the Age of Machine Intelligence, CITAP, IIIT Bangalore
December, 2020
NIPFP, Data Governance Network
December, 2020
Credibility Coalition
October, 2020
October, 2020
CSCW, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Anmol Panda, Divyanshu Kukreti, Azhagu Meena, Joyojeet Pal
October, 2020
Venkat Ananth, ET Times
September, 2020
Deccan Herald
September, 2020
September, 2020
Tattle Show and Tell
June, 2020
Shruti Menon, BBC Reality Check
June, 2020
International Archives Week, Milli Consortium, Archives at NCBS
May, 2020
HasGeek
May, 2020
Prachi Salve, India Spend
April, 2020
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (University of Michigan)
April, 2020
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Divyanshu Kukreti, Somya Sagarika, Joyojeet Pal (University of Michigan)
March, 2020
March, 2020
Tattle Mailing List
February, 2020
NPR
February, 2020
Vice
January, 2020
Trust and Security Roundtable, Microsoft Research and Boomlive
November, 2019
AntHill Inside, HasGeek
October, 2019
Comparative Approaches to Disinformation, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
October, 2019
Conference for Truth and Trust Online