That’s the headline on my most recent story, out yesterday, with my colleague James Hookway. It begins:
Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messaging service is limiting users’ ability to forward content, seeking to curtail ways the popular platform allows the spread of misinformation and sometimes has led to violence.
The move, which follows months of criticism over the company’s response to such incidents, is one of the bigger changes Facebook has made to one of its core services in response to political pressure.
The company said Monday that WhatsApp’s more than one billion global users can now only forward material to five individual users or groups at once, down from 20.