WhatsApp Limits Text Forwards to Five Recipients to Curb Fake News

WhatsApp Limits Text Forwards to Five Recipients to Curb Fake News
WhatsApp Limits Text Forwards to Five Recipients to Curb Fake News
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The WhatsApp Limits Text Forwards to Five Recipients Globally to Curb the Fake News, Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service is globally limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumours”, WhatsApp company executives said on Monday.

“We’re imposing a WhatsApp Limits Text Forwards of five messages all over the world as of today,” Victoria Grand, vice president for policy and communications at WhatsApp, said on Monday at an event in the Indonesian capital.

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Previously, a WhatsApp user could forward a message to 20 individuals or groups. The five-recipient limit expands globally a measure WhatsApp put into place in India in July after the spread of rumours led to several killings in the country

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