WhatsApp is used monthly by over 2 billion people from all over the world, a truly impressive number from all points of view, but it also has a series of quite important secrets. More precisely, in 2020 the people from WhatsApp decided to implement in the messaging application a function that limits the resending of a message to a maximum of 5 times, but marks it with a special icon so that the world knows that that message is redistributed "in table".
WhatsApp boasts of the fact that messaging is totally encrypted in its servers, so theoretically it could not know when a message is re-sent several times, but a secret explained now tells us how to find out what is happening. According to a leaker who follows the evolution of WhatsApp and the secrets of the application, it seems that the messages sent back through the American company's platform have attached a special indicator that changes every time a message is sent back by someone.
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WhatsApp monitors the changes for that indicator, and when it comes to the conclusion that the message has already been redistributed 5 times, it marks it as mass redistributed, and stops its redistribution. This measure was taken to stop the spread of fake news, it was strengthened after the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic, when a real frenzy of misinformation began, and WhatsApp was used to send this untrue information all over the world.
WhatsApp practically tracks messages through at least this indicator that tells it if a message has been redistributed several times, but it most likely has others that it uses to monitor conversations. Those from WhatsApp are recognized for the fact that they follow many of the movements made by users in the application, and this is because this is Facebook's policy regarding its own applications, so now we also know how the messages are monitored.
WhatsApp will not give up this practice because it cannot otherwise know how to classify messages when they are redistributed too often, but theoretically it does not know what a message of this kind contains, or who re/distributed it.
