In order to stop the spread of fake news , “whatsapp will now allow you to verify forward messages”. Misinformation and fake news are circulating in a social media. To stop this act you can search the messages that’s forwarded or not. You will be redirected to a page on google. Therefore let you know the message may not be genuine or since it has been forwarded, there is a search icon on the right next to the text. Once you tap the text icon you will be redirected to a page on Google. You also have the option to cancel the search.
This would let the user to verify the forwarded messages whether fake or news. The feature is still under development and this information was based on the screen shot shared by WABetainfo. Social media giants Twitter, Facebook are working too on removing false news related to coronavirus from the platform. Let’s take a move to kill fake news. It starts testing features and to release it soon. I’m damn sure, it will help you to search the web for news regarding the message has been forwarded.
