“We encourage you to think before sharing messages that were forwarded.” “WhatsApp cares deeply about your safety,” the post reads. Those include a $50,000 award program for researchers studying misinformation on the app, greater control for group administrators who want to weed out spam and a commitment to supporting fact-checking organizations that use the platform to debunk hoaxes.
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The product change is significant for WhatsApp, which rarely changes its user interface - and it comes in close succession to a series of other steps the company has taken in recent weeks to address its fake news problem. Viral rumors there have been linked to roughly a dozen deaths since May, when the messaging app became a key source of fake news during a contentious local election in Karnataka state. Prior to its launch, WhatsApp had been beta testing the forwarded label in India - the Facebook-owned platform’s largest market, with more than 200 million users. “It also helps you determine if your friend or relative wrote the message they sent or if it originally came from someone else.” “This extra context will help make one-on-one and group chats easier to follow,” the post reads. The label will apply to text, image, video and audio messages globally, a spokesperson confirmed to Poynter. In a blog post sent to Poynter, WhatsApp announced a new label that will indicate when a message has been forwarded to someone from another user.
Today WhatsApp added a new feature that it hopes will stem the spread of misinformation on the private messaging app.
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