WhatsApp Adds Quickly Search Feature To Help Users Debunk Viral Messages
WhatsApp
rolling out new features which help users to
quickly search the content of viral messages, Announcement by Company. A
magnifying glass icon will start appearing next to WhatsApp messages which has been
forwarded by more than five people or more people. By tapping up on it, It will
open up online information related to messages to check if it is a common
conspiracy or misinformation of message.
In the image feature released by
Company, It is one example of a viral message that “Corona Virus Can Be Cured
By Drinking Fresh Boiled Garlic Water” and once clicked on a magnifying icon it
will search information about it and it claims as False.
Company makes an attempt to
police misinformation on WhatsApp are difficult due to end-to-end encryption,
So it is difficult to see contents of any messages sent on the service. This
new feature will give facility to users to fast check the information about
viral messages rather than company scanning messages for this kind of
conspiracy. Also company says that any messages that are chosen by the person
to search will be sent directly to the browser.
This is just the latest feature
that was introduced by Comapany to try and stop the spread of misinformation.
In April Whatsapp introduced a way to keep the limit of forwarded messages and
after that viral messages can only be forwarded to one person only rather than
five persons. Whatsapp has measured that after rolling out this feature, It
cuts around 70% spread of viral messages though it is difficult to find out how
many of these messages contained misinformation.
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