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WhatsApp expands message forwarding limit worldwide to contain spread of fake news

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WhatsApp users around the world are now restricted from sharing any specific message more than five times on the instant communication platform, as the company continues to battle the fake news plague. WhatsApp users around the world are now restricted from sharing any specific message more than five times on the instant communication platform, as the company continues to battle the fake news plague.
Meant to bring that “feeling of intimacy” back to WhatsApp users, the revisions were initially billed as a work in progress, with “tests” underway in July 2018 targeting India first and foremost.
But according to a new CNBC report, WhatsApp announced earlier today in Indonesia that a “limit of five messages” is being imposed “all over the world” effective immediately.

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