WhatsApp says its forwarding limits have cut the spread of viral messages by 70 percent [The Verge]
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Photo by Thomas Ricker / The VergeThe spread of “highly forwarded” messages on WhatsApp has dropped by 70 percent as a result of the company’s new forwarding limits,Crunchbeginning of AprilThe news means that WhatsApp’s new limit is successfully slowing down the spread of viral messages, despite the fact that people still have the option of manually forwarding a message to multiple people or groups. However, it’s impossible to know how many of these messages contain the misinformation that WhatsApp is trying to halt, versus how many of them are helpful advice or harmless memes.WhatsApp is reportedly being used to spread misinformation about COVID-19 curesWhatsApp has faced intense scrutiny about the role of its service in spreading misinformation during the pandemic. WhatsApp groups can contain as many as 256 participants, meaning messages can spread quickly between a large number of users. Last month,CNN and other news organizationsdo more to control the spread of viral misinformatio
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