In a move that has likely been designed to reduce the impact of spam and fake news being spread on its platform, WhatsApp is beta testing a feature that labels messages forwarded from another chat or from within the same chat as "Forwarded Message" "Forwarded Message" will appear on top of every post that spammers forward to groups en masse. The feature was first reported by wabetainfo.com, a site that follows the WhatsApp Beta Program on Android. The feature reportedly appears on 2.18.67. The rollout, however, seems to be limited to certain users as we were not able to test this feature for ourselves. "Today, WhatsApp has modified the behaviour of the feature, that will show on the bubble (when the feature will be enabled in future), a "Forwarded Message" string, if the message has been forwarded from another chat (or from the same chat)," said the report. [caption id="attachment_181518" align="aligncenter" width="550"] (Source: wabetainfo.com)[/caption] When a message is forwarded a lot of times, you can notice the label on the bubble(screenshot above). WhatsApp spam and fake news Whatsapp has a serious problem with fake news and rumour-mongering on its platform with most such messages being sent out in mass forwards to a large number of groups. This can sometimes flare up as incidents of violence. The recent violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj showed the threat WhatsApp can pose in sensitive areas. After the death of a youth, Chandan Gupta, in the violence, rumours were spread claiming the death of another person…
