WhatsApp is limiting the number of recipients to which its users can forward certain messages about the COVID-19 pandemic. The idea is to stop messages that already have been forwarded a number of times from reaching even more users in rapid succession. The Facebook-owned messaging app had already set limits two years ago on forwarded messages in order to constrain virality, the company said. The company says it wants to maintain WhatsApp as a platform for private messages. It says it saw a 25 percent decrease in total message forwards globally.
Source: https://threatpost.com/whatsapp-covid-19-mass-message-forwarding/154563/