With Lok Sabha general elections 2019 just a few weeks away, WhatsApp is testing the reverse image search feature that will allow users to match the forward images with photos on Google browser to authenticate whether it is genuine or fake.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is one of the most used messenger apps on both platforms iOS and Android. With popularity, it has a great responsibility to make sure, the app is not misused. But, several thousands of people in India knowingly or unknowingly circulated fake news about child lifters leading to mass lynching across the country in 2018.
Thereafter Indian government asked WhatsApp to curb the spread of misinformation and the latter did take several security measures including restricting a number of forwards to five per each person. This apparently reduced the number of lynching cased before the year of 2018 and now, WhatsApp is bringing new reverse image search feature, which will definitely help users to identify whether the photo is fake or not, reported WABetaInfo citing WhatsApp Android beta update (2.
