Due to the coronavirus outbreak, worldwide measures are becoming more and more severe every day. While countries are closing their borders to reduce the spread of the virus, curfew has been imposed on certain age groups in Turkey. WhatsApp has also made new decisions in communication to support the fight within the scope of these restrictions. The company, which previously prepared a special page to inform its users due to the outbreak, has also decided to take an important step to prevent misinformation. According to the decision, WhatsApp will prevent a message from being shared with more than one person starting tomorrow.
With this decision, WhatsApp users will now be able to forward messages sent to five or more people to only one person. The aim of this restriction is to reduce the speed at which false information is sent that could harm the fight against the virus.
Until 2018, WhatsApp users could forward a message to 250 groups at a time, but this number was reduced to 20 after that date, and to 5 in 2019.
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01-01-1970 02:00:00