Summary

Misinformation spreads quickly, especially through private messaging apps like WhatsApp, and Signal. This can make detecting misinformation difficult and even harder to challenge. This is especially risky for vulnerable groups such as migrants, who may face language barriers, limited access to reliable information, complex new country systems, and distrust in official sources. False claims about legal rights, healthcare, or immigration can cause confusion, isolation, and harm.

This project explores how migrants experience and recover from misinformation. Instead of focusing only on fact-checking, we ask: what helps people recognise, respond to, and recover from false or misleading messages? We will develop a misinformation resilience framework through the lived experience analysis from migrant communities. Our goal is to understand what resilience to misinformation looks like and how it can be supported. The findings will help charities, local organisations, and digital inclusion teams create more effective, culturally sensitive responses. It will also lay the groundwork for future societal resilience tools, possibly AI-powered systems, that can offer supportive, trustworthy feedback when people encounter misinformation in private digital spaces.

Ultimately, we aim to shift from simply correcting misinformation to building stronger, more confident and resilient communities that can navigate it safely.