{"id":269071,"date":"2018-07-20T08:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269071"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T06:24:06","slug":"whatsapp-sets-limits-on-message-forwarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/269071-whatsapp-sets-limits-on-message-forwarding.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp sets limits on message forwarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp announced in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.whatsapp.com\/10000647\/More-changes-to-forwarding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a><\/strong> that it is introducing limits to the number of contacts and groups WhatsApp messages may be forwarded to.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We built WhatsApp as a private messaging app &#8211; a simple, secure, and reliable way to communicate with friends and family,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we&#8217;ve added new features, we&#8217;ve been careful to try and keep that feeling of intimacy, which people say they love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In India, where mob lynchings were triggered by mass-forwarded false messages, Facebook is testing a lower limit of five chats at once, and is removing the &#8220;quick forward&#8221; button next to media messages.<\/p>\n<p>People forward more messages, photos, and videos in India than any other country in the world, said WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-whatsapp-india-fakenews\/whatsapp-to-limit-message-forwarding-after-india-mob-lynchings-idUSKBN1KA07V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that\u00a0false messages about child abductors on WhatsApp have triggered mass beatings of over a dozen people in India this year &#8211; some of whom died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that these changes &#8211; which we&#8217;ll continue to evaluate &#8211; will help keep WhatsApp the way it was designed to be: a private messaging app.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/267831-whatsapp-now-labels-forwarded-messages.html\">WhatsApp now labels forwarded messages<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is introducing limits to the number of contacts and groups messages may be forwarded to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[161,2594],"class_list":["post-269071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-facebook","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269083,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269071\/revisions\/269083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}