Features

Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.

The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.

WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more.

How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most vulnerable — by preventing them from burying their dead.

Pakistanis are looking for certainty. Astrologers on YouTube want to help.

Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.

Meet the Chilean artist who made it big using others’ voices.

An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India’s ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny.

Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing the chip giant’s Phoenix expansion.

Mass protests used to offer a degree of safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation.

Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts.

Rest of World’s reporting shows the extent to which Narendra Modi’s ruling party is using its Saral app to strategize ahead of the general election.