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The limit of forwarding of highly viral WhatsApp messages to a single person or group has reduced these by 70% , according to company data. The company implemented this measure in its application to combat hoaxes during the coronavirus pandemic.

"WhatsApp is committed to doing its part to deal with viral messages," a spokesman for the firm said in a statement. As he explained, since the forwarding limit was put into operation, there has been a global reduction of "70% in the number of highly forwarded messages" sent by users of the app.

This restriction was applied worldwide and, although it is contextualized around the pandemic, it tries to solve a problem that has long affected WhatsApp, a platform in which a lot of false information circulates (as at the time it happened with strings of SMS or emails).

In fact, long before a new icon - two arrows - had already been included to indicate that a message came from an account that was not among our contacts. The application, despite the efforts of Facebook, is perfect for expanding hoops and these has become a serious problem in countries like India.

The change does not take into account the origin of the messages or their content, since the communications are encrypted from end to end. That is, WhatsApp does not know what the communications that are limited say, because it cannot access them. Thus, whether it is a meme, a complaint against a government or false information about the coronavirus, the company only knows that they have been forwarded on several occasions.

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