New WhatsApp group feature will have little impact on political messaging, parties say
3 April 2019 9:17 AM GMT
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.
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