WhatsApp New Feature Lets You Control Who Can Add You To Groups
Another new updates from Whatsapp to stop the spread of false messages. WhatsApp is presenting new controls that given you a chance to restrict who can add you to whatsapp group messages. VentureBeat takes note of that the application presently gives you a chance to prevent individuals from adding you to any group in the event that they are not a contact in your phone book. On the other hand you can keep anybody at all from having the capacity to include you or else leave the alternative open to all.
This new feature is one piece of a large group of changes that whatsapp is making to attempt and prevent fake news from spreading. The BBC report detailed that in Brazil’s elections a year ago political campaigners were utilizing software programming to automatically add people to political WhatsApp groups without their permission. It is expected that similar practices can happen in India during election.
WhatsApp has limited the number of times a message can be forwarded to 5 and furthermore now marks sent messages to attract attention for them. 2 April WhatsApp launched new fact-checking service in India which whatsapp user can use to confirm if the messages true or fake that have been sent.
Clients that allow or restrict who can add them to whatsapp groups can in any case be still be added by sending private invitation. When some one send private invitation then you will get a link which gives general information data about the group they’ve been invited to and can decide to join if you want to. Else the connection link expires in 72 hours. Before a WhatsApp page report that the best way to avoid being added to a group was to block the admin of that group.
Now the new settings can be accessed by going to Account settings menu then Select Privacy then Groups and you’ll have the capacity to choose who can add you to a group. This gives you three alternatives Nobody, My Contacts or Everyone. WhatsApp’s new group controls features are launching today 4th april and will take off to all whatsapp users in the coming weeks.
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