WhatsApp is a platform widely used in Brazil for exchanging information through online messaging. In this sense, a few years ago, the platform adopted measures that restricted large-scale sharing of messages to prevent the proliferation of fake news. Therefore, understand more about the new limitation of forwarding messages in WhatsApp.
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A few years ago, WhatsApp incorporated a limit on the forwarding of messages in its update. In this sense, when certain content was shared many times by several users, it was indicated that content had been passed to many people, as indicated by the message “Forwarded with frequency".
This was done to prevent the circulation of fake news, the famous fake news. This is because the user would understand that because that message had a large circulation, it would be more difficult to discover the author of the information, and therefore, there would be a greater possibility of it not being news true.
However, it seems that the company seeks to make forwarding messages even more difficult. Thus, although there has been no official communication from WhatsApp stating that the reason for increasing the restriction for this feature is to prevent the mass sharing of fake news, it is very likely that this was the main reason.
Even though it is not yet available, the information that is available is that as of the 2.22.7.2 update for Android, there must already be the effect of the forwarding restriction. This way, the resource will work in a much more limiting way.
The user can only send the forwarded message to one group. If he wants to send for more, he will have to go through all the sharing menus. Also, the message marking that message forwarding happened multiple times will continue to appear.
Thus, although it does not serve to end the sharing of content in large quantities, in fact, this measure helps a lot to reduce the speed of message circulation.
