So, if u wanna stop fake news in WhatsApp, first we need to track the number of times, a same message is transferred. Suppose, we fix this as 20 times. 20 times in the hierarchy. After a message is transferred 20 times, WhatsApp will provide a small icon on the bottom of the news, " check authenticity". Only if someone who is among the 20 clicks this icon, the message will be taken to a website, lets say, fun with fake WhatsApp news. If someone clicks " check authenticity" and consortium of industries thinks it's not a personal message, only if the source of the news, participates in the debate, more forwarding will be allowed, otherwise, message will be frozen. And if the source participates, small icon under the forwarded message will be there saying " check debate". There will be debate in the fake news site. This " fun with fake news" site should be an open site, where every fake news is open in public with debate. Anyone can see, organisations can appoint people to make funny videos about these fake news. Remember, every fake news source is watched, because we have their number. If u keep on dumping fake news, WhatsApp will block the number.
There is this another issue. WhatsApp doesn't want to record who sent a message or in other words, who is the originator of the message. To solve that issue, first there are three types of messages. Short messages, private messages, public messages. Short messages, with fewer words, no need to track. If the message is long or it's a video, the user will be asked to choose the category of the message. If he chooses private messages, it will also not be tracked, with a disclaimer that if this message contains public news, it is fake. If he chooses public message, the message will be given an ID, track the ID.
Actually WhatsApp fake news prevention is better than earlier Facebook idea. Because, Facebook is not reading your news as far as fake news in my idea is concerned ( ha ha ha), unless a user asks for authenticity, for which the user has the right to know, since he received it. Coming how to find which category a news belongs. Why bother industry people, we will ask the person who asked for authenticity to put the category. Facebook will give you tags, generic and specific. Just put the tags, not necessarily one, you can put more than one. Like chewing gum, food and beverage, boomer. Then industry people will receive, verify and process.
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