{"id":155089,"date":"2020-08-04T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/04\/whatsapp-launches-factcheck-feature-aimed-at-viral-messages\/"},"modified":"2020-08-04T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:53:09","slug":"whatsapp-launches-factcheck-feature-aimed-at-viral-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=155089","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp launches factcheck feature aimed at viral messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users will be able to check the truthfulness of messages that have come through five or more people by clicking on a magnifying glass icon WhatsApp has introduced a feature to allow users to check the contents of viral messages in the latest&nbsp;move to root out disinformation and fake news being spread on the Facebook-owned messaging service.The new feature, which is being piloted in six countries including the UK from today, allows users to perform a Google search on content they have been forwarded to factcheck claims and information. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/aug\/04\/whatsapp-launches-factcheck-feature-aimed-at-viral-messages\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp launches factcheck feature aimed at viral messages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users will be able to check the truthfulness of messages that have come through five or more people by clicking on a magnifying glass icon WhatsApp has introduced a feature to allow users to check the contents of viral messages in the latest&nbsp;move to root out disinformation and fake news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}