By restricting messages to 1 group chat, Will Misinformation be catered?
Whatsapp has always tried to restrict the extra usage of everything. The gesture is to make every user realize that he is a responsible citizen of his country. It has also this restriction to notify the user that the message he is sending has been frequently sent already. Whenever a user forwards a specific message many times like more than four times usually, it gets a mark that says “frequently forwarded” and denoted with a double arrow. Also, a Forwarded label appears on the top. This action was taken by WhatsApp to restrict the frequent forwarding and control the misinformation in the society. WhatsApp is going through experiments on bringing the message forwarding to just one group chat and for that it is running the test on the beta program. The restriction will soon come in affect for the regular messages for the users. In the beta program when the message is forwarded in more than one group chat the message appears on the window saying “Forwarded messages can only be sent to one group chat”. This restriction will supposedly be irritating for the users to share the same message separately in each group chat. This will surely stop them from spreading misinformation all around the world. Moreover, the unwanted memes and unnecessary messages will also for the time being. Also Read: WhatsApp is working on Poll Feature for Group Chats
