According to the latest reports, the most used instant messaging application, WhatsApp will now tell you which messages were forwarded to you. They are accompanied by a “Forwarded” label that appears to both senders and recipients. The feature has been in testing since June and has been released for all users.

WhatsApp Starts Labelling Forwarded Messages In Effort To Fight Fake News

The most used instant messaging application, of course, WhatsApp will now tell you which messages were forwarded to you. They are accompanied by a “Forwarded” label that appears to both senders and recipients. The feature has been in testing since June and has been released for all users.

For WhatsApp, this helps determine whether a friend or relative actually wrote the message they sent, or whether it came from someone else. However, the app does not tell who the original author is, unlike the Telegram – who already had this feature.

And of course, if you want to forward a message without the “Forwarded” prompt, simply copy it manually, paste it and send it to the recipient.

Fight Fake News

The company also says: “We encourage you to think carefully before sharing forwarded messages.” The idea, it seems, is to help combat false information, which spreads very easily – sometimes with fatal consequences.

This month, five people were lynched to death in a city in India. Rumors scattered about WhatsApp said they were kidnappers. Other similar cases have been occurring in the country.

A new program called WhatsApp Research Awards will give up to $50,000 for researchers. The idea is to find ways to detect fake news by protecting end-to-end encryption in the application.

So, what do you think about this? Simply share all your views and thoughts in the comment section below.


Source: https://www.9jatechguru.com.ng/2018/07/whatsapp-labelling-forwarded-messages-fight-fake-news.html

Good one

Nice Initiative from WhatsApp.

How many times, this was on FP lately








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Good

Copy and paste people, e don be for una

Great

I blame Buhari for this.

I pray it works well, especially in Niger.. Fake forwarded messages that makes no sense...Tiring receiving it very early in the Morning

It never stops the message.

Useful

How about messages that I did not write myself but COPIED; How can that be detected?

Kai so many work dun cast o, bois will look for other means. I trust my pple .

A step in the right direction. I'm tired of all these WhatsApp fake news circulated on groups.

MrGoogle88:
I blame Buhari for this.

IPOB, okoro savage spotted!

What if the fake news is copied and pasted before sent to recipient, would it still be labelled as a forwarded message?

I don't think Nigerians cares much about this... what they care about is the content.. if u tell them to drink a bucket of water full of salt before passing ojodu Berger.. they will... they are spiritually foolish

The type of fake news I receive daily is alarming. From Donald trump will bomb Nigeria to Herdsmen now Governor of Abia etc etc..
It has to stop. There are this my contacts that as early as 4AM, they have started forwarding trash.
I was alarmed when I went to my gallery to see strange pictures and videos... and this eats up data. One begin to blame MTN and Co for data depletion.
Secondly, whatsapp will have to give us option to receive forwarded messages. It have to be on the receivers discretion to receive or not to receive.

Parents won't like this

You said it on Monday. It is no longer news.

No be if you update your whatsapp

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Yoruba4Life:


IPOB, okoro savage spotted!

Yoromuslim see how you dey hustle for abooki.

There is no fake news about killer Herdsmen for now. And that is what is trending for now. If you are a killer herdsmen and you think this will help shade you up....N.a. lie...Nigerians are wiser now. And they will spread it by forwarding it....

To all my copy and paste people.

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how does this fight fake news

when you can copy, edit and paste

This feature does not and will not in anyway stop dissemination of fake news. Majority of Whatsapp users in Nigeria don't don't care to filter any message sent to their phone before sharing. They relish forwarding same to their contacts, whether the message has been labeled 'forwarded', it does not mean a thing to them.

The only sensible security feature is to engrave contact details (phone nr and name as registered on telco service provider database) of the original sender as footnote to forwarded messages. Even the 100th million recipient should see the original sender's details. The original composer is solely responsible for his message.

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my brothers just imagine

I'm trying to 'imagine'