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WhatsApp Restricts Message Transfer to 5 Recipients

To limit the spread of rumors and false information, WhatsApp announced this week limiting the transfer of messages to 5 recipients instead of 20. Photo credits: iStock / hocus-focus Massive circulation of false information This restriction was put in place following a test phase in India, where the application became the relay of rumors and false information that led to public lynching. No less than 25 people were killed in one year, following the spread of Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari these intox. In Brazil, the WhatsApp application has also been heavily used to allow the candidate Jair Bolsonaro to spread many false information about his opponent in the presidential election. The functionality deployed around the world WhatsApp has made the decision to expand this functionality to all of its 1.5 billion users around the world. " WhatsApp has carefully evaluated this test and listened to feedback from users over a six-month period. The transfer limit has significantly reduced the number of messages transferred worldwide, "notes the firm. The "transfer" function makes it possible to send a message extract Rajput Status vediostatus.com Hindi | Royal Rajput Status | Rajputana Status In English | Rajput Attitude Status | Rajput Love Status | Rajput Shayari or images in a conversation, without contextualizing it, thus leading to numerous interpretation errors. By limiting the number of recipients to 5, the massive spread is slowed down a bit, but the feature remains active in groups of up to 256 users. A user can theoretically propagate information to 1280 people, instead of 5120 before.

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