New Delhi, April 7 -- In a bid to curb the flow of misinformation in COVID-19 times, Facebook-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday announced to introduce a new limit on frequently forwarding messages where a WhatsApp user can forward such messages to one chat at a time.
This limit kicks in once a message has been previously forwarded five times or more, the company said in a statement.
WhatsApp which has over 400 million users in India last year introduced users to the concept of messages that have been forwarded many times.
These messages are labeled with double arrows to indicate they did not originate from a close contact.
In effect, these messages are less personal compared to typical messages sent on WhatsApp.
"We are now introducing a limit...