WhatsApp is limiting the ability to forward messages in an effort to cut off the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.
Once a message has previously been forwarded five times, it can only be forwarded to one chat at a time, effective Tuesday.
The Facebook-owned messaging application set a limit in January 2019, saying at the time that messages could only be forwarded to five chats at a time.
Messages that have been forwarded several times are also labeled with double arrows to indicate that they did not originate from close contacts.
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