WhatsApp The most popular messaging app in the world, because it has a large number of active users. To maintain its community, the app frequently introduces features that improve its user experience, such as possible self-destructive conversations either reduces video length, among others. Now a Facebook-dominated application has announced a new measure of combat fake news: it will reduce the number of transfers to fight the hoaxes.
In the event of an epidemic of coronavirus (Covid-19)Millions of people around the world cannot leave their homes, so they cannot see their friends and family. For this reason, WhatsApp continues to be the way to communicate with them, in addition to their teachers or doctors. To provide a safe space, a well-known application also emphasizes your messages and calls default on auto-encryption. On the other hand, WhatsApp has also announced on its official blog that it will reduce the number of transfers to fight hoaxes about coronavirus, which can sometimes affect humans.
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Already last year the concept of relayed messages was introduced many times, which double arrow arrow label which indicates that they were not created for a contact, and therefore less personal than the standard messages sent by the platform. To combat hoaxes appearing in the popular messaging app, WhatsApp has confirmed that they are launching limit so that these messages can be forwarded to one conversation at a time. It should be remembered that, to maintain the privacy of conversations, this limit was previously imposed in five negotiations, so now it's limited.
You can now only send one message to a conversation at a time
At that time, due to that limitation of five conversations, A 25% reduction in worldwide messaging, and at this rate we are expected to improve that number. WhatsApp made that clear too do not advise against all forwarding, because they know that many users convey useful information, in addition to funny videos, memes and shows and phrases that they consider important. In addition, in the past weeks WhatsApp has also been used to schedule public support sessions for senior health workers.
However, the company has also seen a significant increase in the number of referrals, according to some users, we have been able to break the cycle and contribute to the spread of false information. Therefore, they consider it important to reduce the spread of these messages so that WhatsApp can continue to be a platform for human conversations. But they are not the only changes to the popular messaging app, because they also work directly with NGOs and government agencies, such as the World Health Organization and over 20 health services. to connect people with accurate information.
Trusted authorities have sent hundreds of millions of messages directly to people asking for information and advice. WhatsApp has also confirmed that they believe that now, more than ever, people need to be able to communicate in private, so they are working to apply for a text message continue to work faithfully during this global crisis which never happened.
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