WhatsApp’s latest step on curbing fake news fails to impress Centre

WhatsApp’s latest initiative to curb fake news by putting a label on messages which have been forwarded more than five times has failed to satisfy the government, which continues to insist on traceability in order to get the trail of any unlawful content circulating on the platform.

The Facebook-owned platform had earlier this month introduced an update to its forwarded message label that helps people identify a message which has been forwarded multiple times.