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| WhatsApp places new restrictions on forwarded messages |
WhatsApp instant messaging service has announced new strict restrictions on message transmission as Facebook's chat application has attempted to slow down the spread of fake messages. Therefore, if the user receives forwarded messages repeatedly (more than five times) under the new restrictions, he will not receive any messages. You can only have one conversation at a time.
Due to the increasing scrutiny of the ability of messaging apps to spread wrong information related to the emerging coronavirus pandemic, this decision aims to slow down the transmission of information through WhatsApp.
WhatsApp says: “We know a lot of users are conveying useful information like videos, animations, ideas, prayer and other things they find useful, and we know that people have used WhatsApp to organize public support in the past few weeks. However, health workers have noticed that users are telling us The number of undeveloped redirects is increasing dramatically, which could lead to the spread of misinformation, and we believe it is important to slow the spread of these messages in order to make WhatsApp a single place for dialogue to synthesize. "
For many WhatsApp users, it is easy to forward a message to 256 people with a few clicks, and these messages were not originally classified as forwarding.
End-to-end WhatsApp encryption also prevents the company from seeing the content of messages sent on its platform. This prevents it from using the same organizational strategy as Facebook that can be used to delete reported malicious content.
In 2018 WhatsApp tried to limit the number of forwarded messages. The forwarding message class also started for the first time. Two arrows were added to indicate that the message was sent multiple times. Last year, the service limited the number of people who could send messages. five.
While there is nothing to prevent sending messages to different people over and over again, introducing additional restrictions has generally slowed down the speed of sending. According to WhatsApp, these restrictions reduce the number of messages sent to multiple contacts at the same time. 25%.