Update WhatsApp Axes COVID-19 Mass Message Forwarding

[guardian]

WhatsApp Axes COVID-19 Mass Message Forwarding Amid rampant misinformation, users of the Facebook-owned messaging platform can no longer send coronavirus messages to more than one user at a time
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In an effort to stem what it says is misinformation being spread on its platform, WhatsApp is limiting the number of recipients to which its users can forward certain messages about the Covid-19 pandemic.

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[dhruv2193]

This was necessary.

[Mike]

By making it more difficult to pass them on hopefully it will limit the spread of misinformation about the current global pandemic and crisis. Such misinformation has been running rampant on social media.