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Popular social messaging app WhatsApp constantly keeps updating its app to provide its users with a smooth messaging experience. After finally launching the year-long awaited dark mode feature for both its Android and iOS users, the Facebook-owned messaging app is now in talks to soon roll out an advanced search messages option, which will let users search messages on the web directly from the app, hence curtailing the spread of fake messages across the app by helping to authenticate forwarded messages via web searches on the same.

According to WABetaInfo, the online portal dedicated entirely to the coverage of the Facebook-owned messaging platform, the chat app has been testing advanced search features for long now where users can search for 'Frequently Forwarded Messages' on the web from the chat. This can be shown as WhatsApp labels messages that have been frequently forwarded on top of the text, as seen on the screenshot shared by the blog. This feature, therefore, let you know that the message may not be genuine since it has been forwarded multiple times.

This new feature, which is yet to roll out officially, shows a magnifying glass against the forwarded message. After tapping the icon, WhatsApp will ask if you want to upload the message on Google, so you can see if it contains fake news.

Once you tap on the icon, a message will pop up and read, “Would you like to search this on the Web? This will upload the message on Google." Tap on the ‘Search the Web' button and it will then search on Google.

As the element isn't accessible at the present time, WhatsApp, be that as



it may, affirmed that it will be accessible soon. "We are dealing with new highlights to help enable clients to discover more data about the messages they get that have been sent commonly. This component is as of now in testing, and we anticipate turning it out sooner rather than later," a representative told TechCrunch. 

Being the world's most-utilized social informing application, with in excess of 2 billion clients internationally, WhatsApp has been increase its reality checking highlights continually. All the more in this way, during the critical occasions of the novel coronavirus flare-up on the planet, so as to control the spread of phony news with respect to the infection, which has just slaughtered in excess of 16,000 individuals comprehensively and influenced more than 300,000. The World Health Organization has likewise held submits giving true news and set up a 'Wellbeing Alert' on the application.

The new service, which is free to use, has been designed to answer questions from the public about coronavirus, and to give prompt, reliable and official information 24 hours a day, worldwide, the WHO said adding that this will also serve government decision-makers by providing the latest numbers and situation reports.


Moreover, according to an earlier Mint report, WhatsApp also announced a $1 million donation to the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network and a partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for the WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub to stem the flow of misinformation around the pandemic.
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