While misinformation is a hot topic right now, especially due to all the fake news circulating about COVID-19 or the war in Ukraine, WhatsApp has released a new update that can help limit this plague. Previously, the messaging app owned by Meta already Measures to limit the transfer of messageshowever, they were only implemented in Brazil.
Now, starting with WhatsApp Beta 2.22.7.2 for Android, WhatsApp users around the world can it is much more difficult to share previously shared messages.
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WhatsApp wants to limit the number of forwarding messages
As WABetaInfo reveals, once a message is already marked as delivered, it is no longer possible to forward it to multiple groups at the same time.. If users try to bypass this restriction, the application displays a message stating: Forwarded messages can only be sent to a group chat “.
Thanks to this new measure, people who post information to more than one group will now have to select conversations one by one. WhatsApp hopes to discourage fake news writers by making it harder for them. It’s good to see Meta taking action against misinformation after a bug in Facebook allowed articles with dangerous content to be highlighted in the news tab.
Fake news is such a scourge in some countries that some Internet users have had the idea to use Tinder and Google Maps in Russia to send revealing messages about the war in Ukraine. For now this new limitation is only available in the beta version of the appso we don’t know when it will be available to all users.
Source: WABetaInfo
