WhatsApp is imposing tighter restrictions on how many times users can forward a message, in its latest effort to minimise the spread of misinformation. For any message that is deemed “highly forwarded”, users will now only be able to forward it to one chat (person or group), announced the Facebook-owned instant messaging service on Tuesday,. 

"Highly forwarded" messages are marked by double arrows, indicating that they had been forwarded more than five times, and did not originate from a close contact. The latest move builds on similar efforts by WhatsApp previously, which limited users to forwarding a message to up to five chats. 

WhatsApp is imposing tighter restrictions on how many times users can forward a message, in its latest effort to minimise the spread of misinformation. For any message that is deemed “highly forwarded”, users will now only be able to forward it to one chat (person or group), announced the Facebook-owned instant messaging service on Tuesday,. 

"Highly forwarded" messages are marked by double arrows, indicating that they had been forwarded more than five times, and did not originate from a close contact. The latest move builds on similar efforts by WhatsApp previously, which limited users to forwarding a message to up to five chats.