WhatsApp Launches New ChatBot To Verify Information

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Little by little WhatsApp wants to get in tune with the times of this pandemic and the overabundance of existing advice, and after announcing its affiliation with the World Health Organization (WHO), it now joined the Poynter Institute, to start in this May 4, a chatbot on the stage to connect its countless users together with the interpreted function of more than 80 fact-checking organizations across the globe. 

In this way and with this team specialized in fact assessing behind, the application possessed by Facebook gets on the bandwagon of the struggle against bogus news.

The International Fact Verification Network (IFCN) has been since January 2020, with reality verification from 74 nations, where over 4,000 coronavirus-related hoaxes are identified. All this info is accumulated in the CoronaVirusFacts database, this WhatsApp chatbot's backbone. The database is updated daily from the IFCN so that chatbot users may get their content in their telephones.

How This Bot Will Work On WhatsApp

The system is able to recognize the user's state through the mobile code and then share the nearest fact-checking organizations. Everyone can submit info for review to fact checkers that are neighborhood or visit their site for more information on misinformation circulating in the region. 

IFCN manager Baybars Orsek referred to the agreement with WhatsApp and commented that,"countless millions of customers trust WhatsApp to keep in touch with their family and friends every day. Since poor actors Utilize all platforms to spread falsehoods, to fool others in these challenging times, the work of fact-checkers is more important than ever before." The IFCN chatbot is totally free to use. Users may save +1-727-2912606 as a contact number and send a text message using the phrase"hello" to initiate the chatbot. They can also click poy.nu/ifcnbot to begin.

At first, the chatbot will be available just in English, but it will shortly be in different languages, such as Hindi and Spanish.