https://thecitizenng.com/whatsapp-limits-recipients-of-forwarded-messages-to-curb-fake-news/ Nigeria's leading online newspaper Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:53:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.10 https://thecitizenng.com/whatsapp-limits-recipients-of-forwarded-messages-to-curb-fake-news/#comment-40578 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:53:25 +0000 https://thecitizenng.com/?p=145544#comment-40578 It is disheartening and unfortunate that WhatsApp has incapacitated the users of its platform by this action. Reason given is VERY MYOPIC. Even if only one chance is given, “fake news” will still be transmitted if one has such an intention.
However, it should note that some persons, including myself, use the services for good purposes. Therefore, reducing the scope from 256 to 20 was uncalled for and still going down to just 5 is also uncalled for and is most unfortunate.
My humble appeal is that WhatsApp should facilitate communication in this era by going back to the original 256.

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