On a hot morning in India's tourist mecca of Jaipur, an open truck painted in the signature lime-green colors of Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service pulls into a dusty lane, where five men spill out and begin to perform a skit.

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is drafting another letter asking the Facebook-owned platform to design a technology-led solution to trace the origins of incendiary messages.

An Israeli cybersecurity research firm, Check Point Research, discovered security loopholes in WhatsApp that can be exploited by hackers to \"intercept and manipulate messages sent in both private and group conversations\".

Only 25 WhatsApp messages have been genuine complaints so far, while the rest of the forwards have been random messages which have no relevance to the Railways.

WhatsApp users can now make group calls to up to four people by starting a one-on-one voice or video call, and then tapping the 'add participant' button in the top right corner of the app to add another contact to the call. 

The application will comprise color codes which will be assigned to messages. Green color will indicate legitimate content; yellow will be displayed when the system is unable to decode the message; while red will indicate that the message is definitely a hoax.

The California-based popular instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, will soon release an update which will allow users to view images and GIFs directly in the notification bar.

As of now, the 'suspicious link' tag can be found on WhatsApp beta for Android devices. The feature will be brought to iOS and Windows Phone in later updates.

Social networking in India gets a regional flavour.

Over 100 Google engineers, including some senior ones, are working on a new operating system called Fuchsia. While a definite direction has been not been devised for this new OS, it very well might replace the other operating systems by Google - the popular Android and the Chrome OS. Or Google might take a broader view on it, and develop Fuchsia into a cross-platform software for machine learning and AI needs.

The Facebook-owned application will also delete the quick forward button placed next to media messages. The steps are aimed at discouraging mass forwards in India - a country that WhatsApp says forwards more messages, photographs and videos than any other.

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By its very nature, fake news can't be controlled with a top-down approach that Facebook and WhatsApp are trying to adopt. Instead, it needs a bottoms-up approach. It needs to be crowd-tackled.

These actions are coming after violent incidents triggered by the circulation of false social media messages in India.

A series of lynchings across the country recently led to the death of 27 people. The mob that killed them was triggered by a morphed video about child trafficking on WhatsApp.

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WhatsApp also encourages users to be mindful while sharing messages on the platform. Other than this feature, the company also provides options to either report spam or block a particular contact from their list.

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The instant messaging company owned by Facebook has launched various features to keep a check on the spread of fake news on the platform. Recently, WhatsApp launched an 'Admins Only' feature which only allows admins to post in a group.