WhatsApp, the Facebook owned company, is stepping up the battle against fake news with a big change that’ll affect anyone that uses the messaging app as it limits people’s ability to forward messages to large groups.
The idea is that, in theory, it will make it harder for things to “go viral” and will stop the spread of sensationalised fake news.
Although this new strategy is going global, WhatsApp is taking things even further in India.
“In India – where people forward more messages, photos, and videos than any other country in the world – we’ll also test a lower limit of 5 chats at once and we’ll remove the quick forward button next to media messages.” the company confirmed .
In the rest of the world, users will only be able to forward messages on to 20 people. The previous limit was 250.
WhatsApp has confirmed that the new change is in response to the spread of fake news and in some cases resulting violence…
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