During the pandemic, many were the technologies that applied improvements in their services (expanding the number of participants in videoconferences) in addition to implementing other measures related to the dissemination of false information. In April, WhatsApp limited the forwarding of messages to 5 people, to limit the dissemination of this type of information.
As the elections in the United States approach, Facebook has announced that another of its messaging applications, Messenger, will also limit message forwarding to 5 people as "it is an effective way to curb the spread of viral misinformation and harmful content that has the potential to cause harm in the real world."
Once this functionality is implemented (it will start from today), we will not need to count the number of recipients to whom we want to forward a message, video or photograph, since it will be lthe application itself who informs us of the new limit established as we select the recipients.
Facebook wants to stop the efforts of those who want sow doubts among users with false information, a type of information that, as during the pandemic, in the next elections to be held in the United States can seriously affect the results, as it already happened in 2016.
One of the interesting novelties that Messenger introduced a few months ago is the possibility of make video calls with up to 50 people, a video calling platform that is also available through WhatsApp without having to log into the Facebook platform at any time, since it works through a link.
