Whatsapp has done really well to be one among the most used chat app, but with such a great reputation comes great responsibility. Criminals and anti-socials are using the chat app to share fake news and the time has now come up where the Facebook-owned company needs to check the use of this chat app. It is reported that Whatsapp is checking the authenticity of the website links that are shared through it by it’s upcoming ‘Suspicious Link’ feature.
With this feature in action, the moment you receive a link to a website on WhatsApp, the app will instantly do a background check and will alert you if it finds something wrong.
“When WhatsApp detects a suspicious link, the message is marked with a red label,” says a report in WaBetaInfo. The red label will indicate that either it’s spam or phishing link or is redirecting to a fake news website. Sometimes, third-party links can redirect to malicious website that download malware in the background.
Whatsapp has been trying hard to stop the use of its app for doing such anti-social activities. Recently it had offered a huge amount for anyone who could come up with ideas to do the same.