WhatsApp prepares tool to help users verify information
WhatsApp is developing a new feature to help its users detect hoaxes circulating through the app. This feature will allow a web search of messages with suspicious information that has been repeatedly forwarded from other conversations. At the moment WhatsApp is testing a beta version of the feature and the company will launch it as soon as it is ready.
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