The Avant-Garde Ways to Prevent the WhatsApp Fake News

The birth of the information era has perceived many machineries which have throttled the Communication Engineering applications. Amid the zillion instant messaging applications, WhatsApp has its share of highlights and challenges. In India, chat messaging app—WhatsApp—is seen trapped in multiple court cases relating to the spread of misinformation, encrypted messages and fake news. Unless the liabilities are restricted, it will no longer be an asset but rather will become a curse on the user community. Over seventy billion messages are spread on WhatsApp daily, and the false rumours are spread at lightning speed. They have encompassed conspiracy theories, anti-vaccination misinformation and panicked rumours and have led to fatal lynchings worldwide. Many have exploited WhatsApp for dispersal of falsehood and abhor discourse. The inspiration behind this paper is to decrease the spread of fake news in WhatsApp. This paper will recognize the fake news, depending on the data given from the client end. Client can propose just those messages as fake, that are approved for the proposition. Service provider will accumulate all these data and the need for each fake news will be given based on the count of proposal and furthermore dependent on the priority level of the clients. For every priority level, a star rating will be given. Every time when the count reaches the red label level (most elevated amount), that specific message will be blocked, and it can’t be sent to anybody. This technique is incontestable and can guarantee a fake free WhatsApp.