WhatsApp has had a forwarding limit in Brazil for three years to combat fake news and that feature will soon be rolled out worldwide, reports WABetaInfo† That site reviews the latest test versions of WhatsApp and looks for new features: the forwarding limit is one such new feature.
The limit will probably work the same as in Brazil. There, users can freely forward their own messages as much and often as they want. But messages that have already been forwarded can only be sent to one chat at a time after that.
It also looks at how often a message has already been forwarded: a message that has only been forwarded once can be forwarded to a maximum of five others, if the message has already been forwarded several times, it can only be forwarded once.
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New Community Chat Groups
WhatsApp would also like to introduce its Communities feature soon. This gives chat groups their own place and more functions for administrators. The function seems to be mainly aimed at organizations that currently have multiple WhatsApp groups, such as groups from school or the sports club.
Communities will have their own button instead of the camera button next to the regular chat button. Administrators can more easily send notifications to all members or only to subgroups: only certain football teams, for example.
It is not yet known when the features will be available to everyone, but now that they are in WhatsApp beta, it usually takes a few weeks to months for everyone to have the features.
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