Posted on 30th May, 2019

WhatsApp‘s fight against fake news is still on

Introduced a search image to handle fake images.

WhatsApp has been consistently in the news for fighting against spam messages. More than one million users actively use this platform to communicate with other members or group. Thus, it becomes the primary target, through which rumours are widely spread around the globe. Moreover, its impact is mostly in India, since, the majority of WhatsApp users are from this part of the world.

How WhatsApp is going to fight with visual misinformation?

With the press of a button within the application itself, WhatsApp will send the photos to search engine. Then, this app will direct its users to the search results and will show similar kinds of images on the internet.

Thus, the user can easily differentiate between fake images and real images and can take decision accordingly if or if not to rely on them.

However, this image tool is currently available in the newest WhatsApp beta for any Android devices.

Moreover, the company has taken major initiatives by providing fund for research against any wrong information within its application. Since the majority of its users are from India, it has taken a new role to prevent fake news in India.

Earlier also we have witnessed WhatsApp having numerous software updates to fight with fake messages. WhatsApp introduced new administrative controls, imposed a limitation to forwarded messages to only five members at a time and is banning spam accounts and bots every month.

Now, the newest kind of search engine feature will prevent the spread of fake photographs within the application itself.

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