Facebook has a coronavirus problem. It's WhatsApp (Q4194)

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article published on March 18, 2020
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Facebook has a coronavirus problem. It's WhatsApp
article published on March 18, 2020

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    18 March 2020
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    Cristina Tardáguila, from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), suggested that WhatsApp could include a message asking people "are you sure this is true?" before they send a message related to coronavirus.
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    But Carl Woog, a WhatsApp spokesperson, told that it's not something the platform would be able to do because WhatsApp is encrypted, and that "passing remote judgment on deciding what can be sent and not be sent in a real time message would be unprecedented" for a text or SMS service.
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