Now You Can Easily Identify Fake Links in Whats App

Now You Can Easily Identify Fake Links in Whats App

Source : Medium

Whats App is the most widely used messaging app in the world. Because of that links and news spread through this app every single day. So it became a source to spread fake news.

The main challenge faced by a Country

Source : Trak.in

The biggest challenge faced by a country is the fake news being spread about the particular country.

So it becomes necessary to stop this kind of fraud activities. It is creating a lot of issues which leads to murders, attacks and so on. The issues are caused mainly in between politics and religious matters due to the fake news being spread. To stop this Whats App has been researching to find a solution for it.

Just a Beta Version For Now

Source : The Indian Express

They were even charged with 50,000 $ for these kind of problems. To solve this problem whats app is trying to bring in new updates. Out of the updates, this is one of the update available for the beta users. According to the update it can identify and inform the user whether it is fake or not before they open. It is available for whats app 2.18.221 and after.

What is the Update?

Source : Softonic

WABetaInfo is the first thing that reported. According to this, When we receive an link message it will have 2 options along with it. That is , To open or back. IF the link is suspicious it will be stated on top of the message 'Suspicious Link'. Soon this update will be available to its users.

Whats App to Stop The Fake News

Source : BGR India

To stop the fake news from spreading recently whats app provided a update to its users 'forwarded'.

To identify whether the message is forwarded it will have a tag along with the message. To stop all the fake news being viral we can be a part of it to live in a safe and sound country