WhatsApp rolls out ‘Frequently Forwarded feature to prevent spread of fake news
The instant messaging app WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature. Indian users have started getting these features. This feature of WhatsApp has been made to control the spread of fake news and rumors.
WhatsApp’s new feature is for Frequently Forwarded Messages. This feature will be given to Android and iPhone users. Under this feature, users will know what the frequency of message forwarding is. These labels will appear on forward messages made more than five times.
This feature has been given in latest version WhatsApp. WhatsApp has already started a label on forwarded messages. It looks like a single arrow, which means that the message is forwarded. Now a new label has started. This is the label with the double arrow.
WhatsApp has said that the company limits the forward message to the privacy and intimacy on WhatsApp. Message can be forwarded to just five people at a time. If a user forwards a message more than five times, here the label of the double arrow will be visible. The messages send through the platform are end and to end encrypted.
A spokeswoman for WhatsApp said, “Recently, we have issued an update in our Forward Message label which will help people recognize that the received messages have been forwarded several times. More often forwarded messages will be marked with double arrows and users will forward it, they will also see a notice.”
