Facebook is restricting message forwarding

 

Facebook has updated a new policy for messenger services. Under this, users will not be able to 'forward' any message to five people or more than five groups at a time.

Facebook hopes that if this policy is implemented, it will be possible to prevent the spread of fake news from their messenger platform.

Joy Sullivan, product managing director of the privacy and safety division of Facebook's messenger service, said limiting effective message forwarding would prevent the spread of fake information and malicious content. These contents cause potential damage in the real world.
"We think it's important to control the spread of misinformation as the Kovid-19 epidemic continues," Sullivan said. In addition, important elections are going to be held in several countries including the United States and New Zealand. We have taken steps to provide more transparency and accurate information to the people. "

Last year, Facebook authorities restricted the ability to forward such messages to their WhatsApp. WhatsApp also limited the ability to forward messages repeatedly while chatting last April.

Facebook has been sharply criticized many times for not controlling the spread of fake or misleading information on their platform. Although limiting the number of forwarding messages does not completely prevent the spread of fake messages, Facebook thinks it will slow down the process.
Last March, Facebook indicated that it would bring such a feature. From that time onwards, the experiment was going on with the feature inside Facebook.

Some more new privacy features have been added to Facebook's Messenger app, including reducing the ability to forward messages. Android phone users will get this facility.

According to Facebook, if more people are added to the Messenger app to forward a message, a message will come from WhatsApp, indicating that your message forwarding limit has been exceeded.