WhatsApp is one of the most well-known and used messaging services, although in recent days, the service has generated quite a bit of controversy because many users believe that WhatsApp is has allied with the Government of Spain and promotes censorship.
Although WhatsApp has changed a lot since it hit the app stores, many users now suspect whether the messaging service is in league with the government to promote censorship. Everything has arisen as a result of the new WhatsApp function through which the forwarding of messages between users was limited.
Fake news is a problem on different social networks, which is why WhatsApp introduced this new system a few days ago by which detects when a message has been forwarded many times times and then it only allows us to forward it to a contact.
We must make it clear that is a measure that has been taken worldwide to try to deal with hoaxes and fake news that They circulate on WhatsApp daily and not only in Spain. Although many users have begun to use alternative messaging services such as Telegram.
This is not the first time that WhatsApp has tried to deal with hoaxes and fake news, since we remember that for more than a year, when we forward a message, it appears at the top that it has been forwarded. Although the measure did not help much and the hoaxes continue to circulate.
With the inclusion of this measure, WhatsApp has decided to integrate different communication media from each country whose phone numbers are verified by WhatsApp in order to go to them in case we detect a hoax but they are not in charge of censoring information.
In the case of Spain, WhatsApp has decided to integrate Maldita and Newtral, which has led many users to become suspicious about government censorship. Although as we say, it is a measure where all countries have their own media that are in charge of denying hoaxes so that users can go to them and find out if the message they have received is a hoax or not.
We must emphasize that this limitation of sending to a user applies to both images and text and even to voice messages. Due to the number of ways fake news is delivered today.
What do you think of the new fight against fake news? Do you think it will be useful?
