New WhatsApp group feature will have little impact on political messaging, parties say
Social media heads in the parties say the changes are too little and too late to create an impact before the elections.
- : Here's how to check fake news on WhatsApp Starting for some today (and for everyone in a couple of weeks), WhatsApp users can choose "Nobody", "My Contacts", or "Everyone" to indicate who can automatically add them to groups.
- With the routine use of WhatsApp groups to send out party-related content, a new product feature timed just over a week before Lok Sabha 2019 elections may not make the intended dent into political messaging on the platform.
- WhatsApp engineer Matt Jones responded by citing a product change from last year that stopped people from automatically re-adding users to groups they have already exited.
- "Anyway people would automatically exit a WhatsApp group if they don't want to be in it.