WhatsApp launches 'Search the Web' Feature to Prevent Fake News

WhatsApp launches 'Search the Web' Feature to know True and False News: WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, often brings new features to maintain its popularity in the competitive market. A messenger chat room has just been added to WhatsApp. Where 50 people can make video calls at once. Earlier this feature was available in Facebook Messenger but now it is also available in this most used messaging platform in the world. Recently another new feature has been added to this platform.

WhatsApp launches 'Search the Web' Feature to Prevent Fake News

According to reports, WhatsApp has started rolling out a new feature called 'Search the Web'. This feature will allow users to verify the authenticity of a link forwarded to them. WhatsApp has brought this new feature to control the spread of fake news.

After updating to the latest version of WhatsApp, you will see the magnifying glass button in the chat. Clicking on that icon will redirect the link in the WhatsApp message directly to the web, from where users can check the authenticity or source of that link.

Unfortunately, this new feature is currently only available to Android, iOS, and WhatsApp web users in Brazil, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. However, it is expected to be available in other countries, including India in the future.

Allegations of spreading fake news through WhatsApp are not new. The company is also bringing new updates to this. A few days ago, WhatsApp brought an update, after which the word 'forwarded' can be seen on the top of a message. Not only that, this year, the company also made arrangements so that users could not forward messages to more than one user at a time. Now let's see how effective WhatsApp Search the Web feature is to prevent fake news.