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Twitter’s Voice DM Feature Rolls Out in India

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  The social networking platform Twitter has launched its new voice DM feature for iOS and Android users recently. According to reports, the company has made the voice “direct messages” available in three countries as of now, including India, Brazil, and Japan. The company had announced last year that it is planning to bring audio messages to Twitter. As per Twitter India’s latest announcement, this feature, which it calls an “experiment,” will be rolled out in phases. Manish Maheshwari, the managing director of Twitter India, in a statement, said that these voice DMs are meant to provide users with a new way of expressing themselves and helping them connect through subtlety, empathy, and emotion developed by hearing a person’s voice. Similar audio message features are already available on other  social media  platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. In its latest tweet, Twitter India uploaded a video showing how this new voice DM feature works. Users can reco...

WhatsApp Rolls Out New Privacy Policy: Here’s What It Means for You

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  Social media giant Facebook acquired WhatsApp back in 2014, and it slowly changed the way the platform accessed user data. And now Facebook is displaying a “take it or leave it” stance to the WhatsApp users with the newly updated privacy policy. Earlier this week, users from around the world started seeing a popup notification regarding privacy policy and terms of service update on their WhatsApp, and most users had no idea what this was all about. With this latest update, the social networking company has expanded the way WhatsApp will share its user data with other Facebook-owned platforms and third-party apps as well. And that’s not all. This update also arrived with the condition that if a person denies sharing their data with the company, i.e., Facebook, they need to leave the messaging platform. These new terms of service will come into effect next month, on 8th February. WHAT DOES THIS NEW PRIVACY POLICY PUT AT STAKE? WhatsApp will continue to hold on to data, including th...

WhatsApp Introduces Fake News Verifying Feature

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WhatsApp users now will be able to identify fake or false news using the new feature. The feature named  Search Message  will allow you to instantly  verify fake news.  The new feature is available for the  WhatsApp Web  or  DESKTOP  users and has also been launched for the  Android  and  iOS  operating systems. You will need to update the app from your official app store in order to get the new feature. This news verification feature will only work for the messages that users forward often to each other. The feature will automatically identify such kind of messages and then you will get an option to check if that viral news is true or fake.  These days, you see horrible news regarding deaths, diseases, crime, health crises, and ongoing epidemic. However many people are using these anxieties to make people believe in anything. Most of the news that you see on social media is fake and that’s why you need to i...