Facebook’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 rumors”, company executives said on Monday.
“We’re imposing a limit of five messages all over the world as of today,” Victoria Grand, vice president for policy and communications at WhatsApp, said at an event in the Indonesian capital.
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 rumors on social media led to killings and lynching attempts.
WhatsApp, which has around 1.5 billion users, has been trying to find ways to stop misuse of the app, following global concern that the platform was being used to spread fake news, manipulated photos, videos without context, and audio hoaxes, with no way to monitor their origin or full reach.
The app’s end-to-end encryption allows groups of hundreds of users to exchange texts, photos and video beyond the purview of independent fact checkers or even the platform itself.
WhatsApp will roll out an update to activate the new forward limit, starting Monday, WhatsApp’s head of communications Carl Woog told Reuters.
Android users will receive the update first, followed by users of Apple’s iOS.
Telegram has no limits on anything you need
Among frum people is seriously creepy
dont get whatsapp. its what Hashem wants. someone who has whatsapp is exposing himself to the nisayon of telling and hearing loshon hara and apikorsus.
Don’t you all see the problem! why does whatsapp think that it is their business what we send around in a message! before watsapp you sent a mass text, before that an mass email, before that you picked up the phone or wrote a letter or took out an ad in a g-d darn newspaper. The real issue is that these big corporations (yes watsapp is owned by Facebook) want to limit your access to open and free information so that they ultimately can control the way you think (and who you vote for). although in this specific case it… Read more »
This company is owned by facebook and imported soviet style silencing and censorship to the US. Seems like they’re control of user’s speech is now bleeding into whattsapp. Scary indeed.
The one stop shop for all your WhatsApp entertainment and tomorrow’s news.
Thy should limit the numbers of photos a user can send in a 24 hr period to 5. Also ban all “duck face” photos, also clothing, plates of food, tables of people at an event, more than 3 people in a group…
You can send as many as you want if you just press forward again.
Maybe that good . Last weeks many we’re fooled with the Uber deal that was only valid in South Carolina
Just copy paste and send!