the portal. “Billions of users rely on WhatsApp to stay in touch with their friends and families every month. Since bad actors use every single platform to disseminate falsehoods, to mislead others during such troubling times, fact-checkers’ work is more important than ever," Baybars Orsek, director, IFCN said in a statement.According to WhatsApp, the IFCN bot allows users to get fact-checks and searchable database of hoaxes that have been debunked.
The verified fact-checkers can only see messages sent directly to them, and cannot see, monitor or delete content on WhatsApp.In addition to IFCN chatbots, various state governments in India have also launched their own covid-19 bots on WhatsApp, but mostly to provide correct information on the.