- WhatsApp is limiting the number of times users can forward messages on to each other from 20 to five, Reuters reports.
- The change applies to all users.
- WhatsApp's vice president for policy and communications Victoria Grand announced the change in Jakarta on Monday.
- The messaging app has already trialled the five-forwards restriction in India, where a series of high-profile lynchings were supposedly sparked by false information going viral on the app.
WhatsApp users will now only be able to forward a message five times, the Facebook-owned messaging company has announced.