Social media platforms are prone to fake news which are difficult to verify.
As a result, WhatsApp with over 1.5 billion users sharing a lot of content on the messaging social network struggles to fight the menace on its platform.
WhatsApp plans to fight fake news, moreso, those in picture form by searching the image on Google. This is easily done on Chrome where one can identify where the photo came from.
As a result, WhatsApp is developing a new feature that will allow you to search an image on the web that you sent or received in your chats.
This is currently being tested and it is not available yet for the beta users or the general public.
In this system, when you select on an image, tap on the options tab and you’ll see search image. When you tap search image, WhatsApp will alert you that the photo will be uploaded to Google.
When it is done uploading, WhatsApp will open the browser to show you the results.
This is particularly useful since it will allow people to verify photos that they receive on WhatsApp. The current system of downloading the suspicious photo, then uploading it to images.google.com is tedious.
This will be a godsend to those people that want to verify information like photos that have been sent to their chats by other people.
A month ago, whatsapp reduced the limit of forwarding messages from 25 to only 5 to curb rumors.