{"id":28272,"date":"2018-10-24T11:34:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28272"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:04:22","slug":"whatsapp-to-cap-number-of-forwards-to-five-chats-per-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whatsapp-to-cap-number-of-forwards-to-five-chats-per-user\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp to cap number of forwards to five chats per user"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/whatsapp-to-cap-number-of-forwards-to-five-chats-per-user\/article24478470.ece\">WhatsApp to cap number of forwards to five chats per user<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>WhatsApp has put a limit on message forwarding in a bid to reduce the spread of misinformation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23309 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/course.jpg?resize=598%2C314\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/course.jpg?w=598&amp;ssl=1 598w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/course.jpg?resize=150%2C79&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/course.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In India, WhatsApp is trying a limit of five chats, as against 20 for the rest of the world.<\/li>\n<li>The current limit is 250 chats.<\/li>\n<li>The step was taken to curb the menace of fake news and rumours being spread using its chatting platform.<\/li>\n<li>The issue gains prominence in the light of the string of lynchings taking place in India sparked off by fake news items regarding child kidnappings being spread on WhatsApp.<\/li>\n<li>The company will also experiment with removing the quick forward button next to media messages in India.<\/li>\n<li>The company will soon remove the quick forward button next to media messages.<\/li>\n<li>In India, people forward more messages, photos, and videos than any other country in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Recently, the company also launched a test of a feature that would label forwarded messages such, thereby distinguishing them from private messages.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp to cap number of forwards to five chats per user News: WhatsApp has put a limit on message forwarding in a bid to reduce the spread of misinformation. Important facts: In India, WhatsApp is trying a limit of five chats, as against 20 for the rest of the world. The current limit is 250&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whatsapp-to-cap-number-of-forwards-to-five-chats-per-user\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp to cap number of forwards to five chats per user<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}