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WhatsApp is preparing for the regional elections that will take place in the Community of Madrid on May 4.

Among his measures to face these elections, he highlights the limitations imposed on the forwarding of messages.

In this way,

WhatsApp seeks to prevent the spread of viral content as possible hoaxes

and celebrates having managed to reduce frequently forwarded messages by 70%.

Efforts in this regard by the platform began in 2018. However, WhatsApp did not begin to hinder the forwarding of messages until last year.

Also offering the option of conducting a Google search to

check the veracity of frequently forwarded messages

.

Likewise, the messaging application, owned by Facebook, ensures, according to information from Europa Press, that

it has not observed a growth in political disinformation due

to the proximity of the Madrid elections, but has a series of measures introduced in recent months to avoid these cases.

As measures to prevent abuse, WhatsApp takes into account the normal functioning of users.

For this reason, machine learning is used to detect abnormal amounts of

messages from a single user

, which indicates that it operates in an automated way, something forbidden on the platform.

WhatsApp's fight against message forwarding

Every month

3 million WhatsApp user accounts are blocked

for engaging in suspicious activities such as mass message forwarding.

These are either detected by automatic methods or because they receive a high number of complaints or blocks from users to whom they send content.

Of these,

75% are removed without any individual review

by moderators, and the remaining 25% are reviewed by humans, usually to analyze the causes of high numbers of crashes.

In the last three years, since the incorporation of this novelty, there has been a decrease in the ratio of forwarded messages of 25%.

These measures,

according to WhatsApp, restrict potentially problematic viral content, such as political hoaxes

.

Likewise, for messages identified as highly forwarded,

WhatsApp put an even lower limit last year,

since it can only send one chat at a time, instead of five.

In this field, the reduction is 70% in forwarding.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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