WhatsApp's new feature will let user search if the image is fake or real
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 15-03-2019
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Fake news has become a rampant problem and in an election year, such information can make or break the fortunes of a political party. And part of the fake news are images, spread through popular platforms like WhatsApp. The Facebook-owned messaging app is aware of these issues, clearly, which is why they will soon let users verify the source of image from the web.
This is an upcoming feature, first spotted by the folks at WABetainfo, who've made it clear that the Search Image option wasn't working for now. WhatsApp is developing a new feature that allows to search an image on the web that you sent/received in your chats, says the post on WABetainfo
As mentioned in the blog post, WhatsApp will make use of the official Google APIs to find images that are similar or carry equal elements on the web. Once you've uploaded the image from WhatsApp to Google, the messaging app will show the results of the search by opening it on the browser.