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WhatsApp also wants to help in the fight against COVID-19 and curb the spread of fake news. The change comes into effect today.
While some spend their time spreading false information on social networks and messengers like WhatsApp, others use WhatsApp to exchange funny pictures and videos. But now WhatsApp's forwarding function has been updated once again. At the beginning of last year, WhatsApp allowed messages, pictures, videos and more to be forwarded to five people. reducedThe reason for this was fake news. Now the change has been expanded, as the company announced in a blog post explained. It says:
Last year, we introduced our users to the concept of frequently forwarded messages, which are marked with double arrows to indicate that they did not originally come from a close contact, and therefore do not have the same privacy and confidentiality as regular messages sent on WhatsApp. We are now introducing a limit where such messages can only be forwarded to one chat.
5G and COVID-19 are under one roof – absurd
According to the report, the system will now restrict mass forwarding once again. This means that anyone who receives messages that have already been forwarded more than five times will only be able to send them to one person instead of five at a time. Basically, this does not prevent the spread of fake news but rather slows things down because it is more laborious. Some observers believe that WhatsApp's motivation for this step was recent events in Great Britain. There, several mobile phone antennas for the 5G network were set on fire because 5G is said to be related to the global corona crisis - beware of conspiracy theory!!! By the way - anyone who would like to receive verified information on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis can do so directly from Federal Ministry of Health or alternatively on the official WHO website remove. (Photo by bigtunaonline / Bigstockphoto)
