Whatsapp $1 Million Grant Coronavirus, Fight Against Fake News - In the middle of the corona virus pandemic, international messaging platform WhatsApp to avoid Coronavirus misinformation will provide high safety measures. A $1 million grant has been generated to fight COVID-19-to keep a tight control for fake news and misinformation indicated by a press release.
Not only this, the company has also produced a Coronavirus Information Hub in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The grant $1 million which is generated will be granted to the IFCN, and will support journalism from the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus association, a project created by the IFCN in January 2020, which included more than 100 fact-checkers in 45 countries.
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WhatsApp users now will be able to identify fake or false news using the new feature.
The new feature is available for the WhatsApp Web or DESKTOP users and has also been launched for the Android and iOS operating systems.
The feature will automatically identify such kind of messages and then you will get an option to check if that viral news is true or fake.These days, you see horrible news regarding deaths, diseases, crime, health crises, and ongoing epidemic.
Most of the news that you see on social media is fake and that’s why you need to inspect every single piece of news to get to the conclusion.On WhatsApp, many people use fake news to trick people for their own benefits such as fake facts about a disease or encouraging others to share it with their friends.
This creates an endless web of fake viral reports that can lead to political issues, misleading, causing unnecessary stress, etc.To overcome this, WhatsApp was developing this fake news verification feature from a long ago.
Now it is completely ready to be used and with the help of this feature, it is possible that misleading news may slow down.According to WABetainfo, the Search Message feature on the web version can be quickly accessed o the WhatsApp Web or WhatsApp Windows application.
All thanks to WhatsApp, now you can read authentic news and keep all the fake rumours at bay.
Recently, WhatsApp came up with a fact checking service in India for combating fake news right before the national elections.
Local startup PROTO has partnered with the messaging monster for the ‘Checkpoint Tipline’ by which users can check and confirm the veracity and authenticity of the messages they receive.
Now, users can forward the message on (+91 -9643-000-888), a WhatsApp’s fact checking service in India which will check the text and respond if the content is fake, misleading, bogus, contested or real.
A Great Boon for the Internet Users
WhatsApp with more than 200 million users across India, has been receiving backlash for its inability to keep fake news at bay on the platform.
A novelty comes to WhatsApp!
The app has added a sticker pack related to coronavirus vaccines.
Well calm, because here we will show you all the details of the news and how to download the "Vaccines for All" sticker pack.WhatsApp launches a sticker pack on vaccines against COVID-19WhatsApp announced the arrival of the sticker pack on its official blog.
In the statement, the messaging app clarifies that these new stickers were made in collaboration with the WHO.This is not a big surprise, because WhatsApp in 2020 already launched a sticker pack inspired by COVID-19.
Well, WhatsApp does not ignore the coronavirus pandemic and wants to continue making its contribution.Do not forget that WhatsApp has shown a lot of commitment regarding this issue.
In fact, the WhatsApp team seeks that the application always keeps you connected with your loved ones, despite the restrictions of the confinements.How to download the WhatsApp sticker pack for the coronavirus vaccineDo you want to download this new sticker pack?
President Donald Trump's organization is encouraging an Investingation concerning the roots of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it doesn't preclude that it originated from a lab looking into bats in Wuhan, China.
Beijing has said that the infection, which has killed in excess of 138,700 individuals around the world, was likely transmitted to people before the end of last year at a Wuhan "wet market" that butchered intriguing creatures - a long-lasting focal point of worry for general wellbeing specialists.
Be that as it may, The Washington Post and Fox News both cited mysterious sources who voiced worry that SARS CoV-2 may have come - inadvertently - from a delicate bioresearch focus in the city.
Also Read:- Coronavirus presents the highest risk for family members of an infected person, according to the CDC"We're doing a full examination of all that we can to figure out how the case this infection escaped, got out into the world and now has made so much disaster - so much passing - here in the United States and all around the globe," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo disclosed to Fox News.
He didn't dismiss the reports and said that the United States realized that the Wuhan research facility "contained exceptionally infectious materials.
We would find out about it and we would find out about what has unfolded there, in the event that anything, today.
Since the lockdown has taken place across the world, the worldwide use of messaging apps has grown at an incredible pace.
The right to wish each other health for the dissemination of knowledge across networks has improved.
Among the different messengers, WhatsApp alone had a 40% rise in use over the past week.
