WhatsApp it is at the center of a radical decision that will bring an extremely serious change to solve an extremely big problem, which until now had no solution. More precisely, in India the local government wants to force companies like WhatsApp to track down the originator of a message that is redistributed en masse within the messaging platform, that is, the vast majority of lies that are distributed without a trace around the world even now.
WhatsApp has allowed a lot of messages of this kind to be distributed within the messaging platform over time, and in India in some cases it has even led to murders because of them. Because WhatsApp does not seem to want to solve this situation, the Indian government wants to force the company to follow a message through the platform to discover the initiator of the chain, and says that this way the trust in the platform could not be damaged either, because it is not accessed the messages.
WhatsApp: The RADICAL decision to the extent that seemed inconceivable
WhatsApp it would not receive requests to intercept people's messages, but only to follow where one starts, so that the initiator can be held accountable for spreading lies. The idea itself could go a long way in reducing the spread of false information within the messaging platform, something that WhatsApp has allowed to happen for years without doing anything to fix the situation for people.
WhatsApp she is not too happy with what she is going to be asked to do, and this is understandable since she will have to follow a lot of messages because a lot of false information is distributed on the platform. WhatsApp will have a lot of work because of the Indians, and this is because if something like this can be imposed there, then other countries will want to do exactly the same thing, and from here a lot of problems arise for the company.
WhatsApp will more than likely try to fight this legal change attempt that the Indian government wants to make, and it wouldn't be a big surprise if it were successful.
