WhatsApp fights against fake news: This restriction could soon apply

• WhatsApp apparently wants to further restrict the forwarding of messages.
• In the future, you can only send a message to one group at a time.
• The limit is currently still in the test phase.

2020 restricted Whatsapp the forwarding of messages. Since then, messages that have been forwarded more than five times are marked as “frequently forwarded”. In addition, messages can only be sent to five contacts at a time.

The messenger wanted to stop the spread of chain letters, especially in the past youth threatened and frequently also misinformation (also called fake news) were spread. Now there appears to be another limitation.

Messages can only be forwarded to one group at a time

In the future, you will not be able to forward messages to several groups at the same time. The restriction had already been discovered in early March in the beta version of Messenger for Android phones. Now she became the blog WA beta info according to also introduced in the WhatsApp beta for iOS devices.

Therefore, it should only be a matter of time before WhatsApp introduces the changes for everyone. Recently the messenger had a big one Update for the voice message feature released.

If you are unsure whether a message sent to you is real, you can use it directly in Have WhatsApp checked for truthfulness by various fact checkers. In the linked article you will find all the information and the numbers you need to contact.

This is something to keep in mind when forwarding messages

What is it in general? Forwarding WhatsApp messages to consider applies and how you the hint Remove “Forwarded”. can, we explain to you in the linked instructions.

An alternative to forwarding messages is the function WhatsApp broadcast.

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