Indian Government has decided to draft a new letter to the instant messaging giant, WhatsApp to develop a technological solution for tracing the origin of messages to curb spreading of fake news and controversial texts. This letter, which is also the third one this year, will address WhatsApp to work … Read More
WhatsApp has released a 2.18.282 Beta version for Android users, which doesn’t have any features to the public, but the Facebook-owned company has started its work on one of the much-awaited ‘Swipe to Reply‘ feature. WhatsApp watcher, WABetaInfo has posted this info stating the feature will be available in the … Read More
A new report has surfaced which points towards the reduction of regulatory measures on OTT (Over the top) applications and platforms by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). With the present data, the telecom operators seem to be satisfied with the growing data usage which these OTT applications are … Read More
Nearly two months after Reliance Jio announcing WhatsApp for JioPhone on KaiOS, the instant messaging application is now available for public download. In a new blog post, WhatsApp stated the JioPhone and JioPhone 2 users can download the application by visiting KaiOS App Store and clicking on Download. The app … Read More
Increasing its efforts on bringing down the spread of fake news on the platform, WhatsApp today stated that it’s expanding the radio campaign to 10 more India states. And the states include Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. WhatsApp faced severe questions from the Indian government regarding the fake news … Read More
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users faced a temporary outage earlier today. Facebook and its other social media platforms temporarily went down late on Monday in the United States, Canada and various other parts of the world, including in India. Facebook blamed a networking issue for the temporary outages. People took … Read More
Since the last few weeks, we haven’t seen anything new developments on WhatsApp which is quite surprising. However, the Facebook-owned company has pushed a new update to its iOS users which bumps the version number to 2.18.90. It brings various new features including the latest ones suspicious link detection, notification … Read More
WhatsApp today roped in New Delhi-based non-profit Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) to train its over 200 million users in India on dangers posed by fake news. This step comes right after the Facebook-owned company was ordered by Central Government to take steps to stop the spread of disinformation on the … Read More
WhatsApp and Centre today received a notice from Supreme Court regarding payments service on the instant messaging platform. In the notice, the Supreme Court ordered to hold WhatsApp from proceeding with its payments service in the country, unless it fully complies with RBI’s provisions. The first and most important direction … Read More
WhatsApp and Google have signed an agreement which will now allow WhatsApp users to store their chat backups on Google Drive storage for free without it being counted towards their paid quota. Notably, before this, users were only granted 15GB of free storage on Google Drive which sometimes used to … Read More
WhatsApp has reportedly denied the Indian Government’s demand to track the origin of spam messages on the platform. WhatsApp said that the solution to track spam messages would undermine end-to-end encryption and affect privacy protection for users. However, WhatsApp has agreed to educate people in differentiating the spam messages. Emphasising … Read More
Of late, WhatsApp is facing several questions from the Indian government regarding fake messages and mob-lynching on the platform. In a stern message to Whatsapp, the government today said the messaging platform would need to set up a local entity and find a tech solution to trace the origin of … Read More
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