Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced Tuesday that its messaging users will only be able to transfer messages from other accounts to one user, in an effort to limit the spread of false news.

The popular messaging app, which includes two billion users, had set restrictions in January 2019 on the number of accounts that can be transferred to any message, limited to a maximum of five.
As for the new measure, users will only be able to transfer messages to one account at a time.

"We know that many users convert useful information, funny videos, expressions, ideas or prayers that are important to them," WhatsApp said on its website.

"However, we have noticed a significant increase in conversions that users consider to be too many and that can contribute to the spread of false news," she added.
"We think it is important to slow the spread of these messages in order for WhatsApp to remain an application of personal messaging," WhatsApp added.
The service constantly faces accusations of facilitating the spread of false news, which sometimes leads to tragedy.

WhatsApp asserts that the measures it previously took to address large-scale transfers resulted in a 25% decrease in the number of messages forwarded around the world.
The service that Facebook bought in 2014 also indicated that the World Health Organization and more than twenty ministries of health are using it to spread information about the epidemic, and more than a hundred million messages have been sent in this framework.