Tuesday, 2 April 2019

WhatsApp unveils ‘tipline’ service to curb misinformation ahead of LS polls

The latest move follows a number of campaigns by WhatsApp to educate users on fake news
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Current Affairs: WhatsApp on Tuesday propelled another administration that enables clients to submit for audit messages they believe are deceiving or convey unconfirmed data, in the most recent of a progression of ventures to check deception on the informing stage.
WhatsApp said its beginning ‘tipline’ administration. Clients can send suspicious messages to the ‘tipline telephone number’ to approve the genuineness of cases in those messages, which might be as content, pictures or recordings. The administration will react by arranging the said data as “genuine, false, deceptive, debated or out of extension and (may) incorporate whatever other related data that is accessible”, WhatsApp said in an announcement. Starting at now, it bolsters Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam dialects, other than English.
WhatsApp, its parent firm Facebook and other online networking destinations are feeling the squeeze from neighborhood specialists to be progressively proactive in recognizing and expelling questionable substance on their stages, particularly as India gets ready to go surveys this month. Deception and phony news circled over WhatsApp and Facebook bunches have been behind brutality and other untoward occurrences in India before…

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