Like many other companies and social media platforms, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been helping its users remain safe and informed since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. Recently, the International Fact-Checkers Network (IFCN) collaborated with WhatsApp to introduce an automated chatbot to prevent the spread of fake news. Now, users can chat with it in Hindi.
Previously, the WHO and the Indian Government collaborated to add a Coronavirus information chatbot on WhatsApp. Now, with the Hindi support for the IFCN chatbot on WhatsApp, we just have to wait and see how much of an impact it makes in the prevention of the spread of fake news around communities.
