Facebook puts in place another tool against disinformation, to avoid the proliferation of coronavirus hoaxes and protect elections, starting with those in the US.
As already done on WhatsApp, the social network has introduced a limit to forwarding on the Messenger chat.
Users will now only be able to deliver a message to a maximum of five people or groups at a time.
"We believe that controlling the spread of disinformation is essential, because the Covid-19 pandemic continues and we are approaching important elections in the United States, New Zealand and other countries," writes in a post Jay Sullivan, head of the Messenger product management for privacy and security.
"Restricting submissions is an effective way to slow the spread of viral misinformation and malicious content that can potentially cause damage in the real world."
The limit to the number of forwards has long been present on WhatsApp - another chat belonging to the Mark Zuckerberg ecosystem - where it seems to have given results.
As reported last April by WhatsApp itself to the Indian Ministry of Electronic and Information Technologies, in twenty days the limit on forwarding has decreased the circulation of the most shared messages on the platform by 70%, that is, those that bounce quickly from a chat to the other to the sound of forwards and which often contain fake news.