- WhatsApp is trying to make it harder for people to spread fake news.
- It's limiting people's ability to forward messages to more than 20 people at a time.
- Indian users can only forward messages to five people at a time.
- The Indian government has said WhatsApp users forwarding fake news to big groups of people led to a spate of lynchings.
WhatsApp is dramatically limiting the ability for people to forward messages after the Indian government blamed fake news going viral via messages for a recent spate of mob violence.
The change means it'll be much harder for people to forward messages — including fake news — to lots of contacts at once. Now users around the world will only be able to forward messages to 20 people at once.
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