WhatsApp Pilots ‘Search the Web’ Tool for Fact-Checking Forwarded Messages – Gizmodo Australia

WhatsApp is piloting a new feature meant to support fact-checking of in-app messages by searching their contents on the web, the company announced this week.
Beginning Monday, the Facebook-owned messaging app began testing a tool that will stamp a magnifying glass next to forwarded messages, which also bear the previously introduced double arrow indicator. By clicking on the magnifying glass icon, users within a thread will be asked whether they want to search on Google for the messages content…

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