In order to curb the dissemination of fake and false news through WhatsApp, WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a change in the message forwarding rules. According to the new change, you can now forward the frequency forward message on one chat at a time. This update comes within the existing limit, in which users can forward a message only 5 times. The Facebook-owned company WhatsApp has made the move to prevent fake news from proceeding during the Corona virus lockdown. Recently, WhatsApp had come across information about offering search options to check the authenticity of forward messages for its users, in which users can search for a news report on WhatsApp to check whether the news is true or fake.
As everyone knows, covid-19, the corona virus epidemic, is currently undergoing lockdown, india also has a 21-day lockdown these days. When everyone is locked in their homes, people's attitude to connect with the outside world has increased online. This has increased the most in WhatsApp forward messages. In view of the steep increase in WhatsApp forward messages and the growing spread of fack news, the company had set a limit for forward messages.
The new update means that users can send a frequency-forwarded message to a person at a time. However, it is not a fact that users will not be able to send forward messages to more than one people at all. He can still copy the message and paste it into the chat box and send the message.
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Tell you that if a user is constantly receiving a forward message, he can forward it further 5 times. But now, according to the new rules, only one single chat can be forwarded to this message. In 2019, this limit was fixed for 5 chats. But now it has been changed again. Almost all over the world, including India, is currently under going on a lockdown due to coronavirus. India now has a lockdown till April 14. Millions of people have been infected with the virus, while many thousands of people have lost their lives due to the disease.
The WhatsApp move is welcome, which would definitely prevent the spread of fake news.
Remind that WhatsApp introduced "Frequently Forwarded" to identify those messages in August last year. So that the message can be identified which is being forwarded again and again. The latest update came after an update in which you could send one forward message to only 5 people at a time. The change in India came in August 2018, but it was continued in the global market in January last year. The company claimed that the change had brought down the forward message by 25 per cent.
Recently, a report reported that the WhatsApp forward message has registered a growth of 40 per cent due to the Kovid-19 lockdown.