Between growing concerns about privacy and security on messaging apps like WhatsApp, researchers at Check Point have shed light on a new revelation which supports the claims that some features on WhatsApp might promote spreading of fake news. The researchers have found and pinpointed the loopholes in the world’s most … Read More
WhatsApp has successfully started the roll out of forwarding limit on messages in India. With the Indian government talking tough on WhatsApp’s failure to check the spread of fake and provocative content on its platform, the instant messaging service said it has begun rolling out its forward message limit to … Read More
The government has asked WhatsApp to convey the various steps taken by them to deal with fake news, even as it said the Centre has no plans to tap into citizen’s messages, Parliament was informed today. The Ministry of Electronics and Information technology (MeitY) is also running a programme — … Read More
Facing flak over the circulation of fake news on its platform, WhatsApp today said it is rolling out educational videos in India asking users to “double check” facts before sharing messages received as forwards. The videos, in Hindi and English, will be available on Facebook – the parent company of … Read More
Telecom operators in India will have to comply if the government orders to block mobile applications. COAI, which represents top telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India today said that the service providers need to comply if the government orders to block mobile applications but it is … Read More
WhatsApp has informed the government that it is building a local team, including India’s head, as part of steps to check fake news circulation but has not met the key demand of identifying message originators, according to official sources. The popular messaging app is under fire over abuse of its … Read More
This year WhatsApp has been making quick and significant updates to its application on both Android and iOS. Many updates have been brought because of the application’s popularity in India. Notably, WhatsApp also remains the most used messaging platform in the world and is owned by the Social Media giant … Read More
WhatsApp is working on one of the much-anticipated features for Android- Picture-in-Picture (PiP). The feature, which is already present on Apple iPhones, once rolled out, will allow users to watch YouTube or Instagram videos right in the WhatsApp application itself. Wondering how? Well, here’s why the feature is named as … Read More
WhatsApp has been making quick updates to its Android and iOS apps as of late and has launched lots of exciting features like the ‘forwarded’ tag, mark as read and much more. Now it seems that WhatsApp will move its focus towards the desktop based WhatsApp Web which launched in … Read More
WhatsApp, on Tuesday, announced that it has rolled out its group calling feature for both voice and video options on iOS and Android devices for its 1.5 billion users. The group calling feature supports up to four people simultaneously. “You can make a group call with up to four people … Read More
This year WhatsApp has brought some drastic and much-awaited changes on-board. The Facebook-owned company has been known to launch updates for its instant messaging apps in close proximity to each other. 2018 has been an intense year for WhatsApp updates since users got to see some pretty exciting additions to … Read More
WhatsApp has rolled out a new update for iPhone users which bumps the version of the instant messaging app to 2.18.80. Under this new update, WhatsApp has extended the Siri support within the app to allow users to send group messages by just using their voice. Initially, WhatsApp started supporting … Read More
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