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By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.
A constant stream of new features and updates is being introduced by the WhatsApp feature for admins of groups.
In a future update, WaBetaInfo reports that the company will allow group administrators to delete messages sent by other members. WaBetaInfo’s Twitter account shared information about the new feature.
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The tweet read, “If you are a group admin, you will be able to delete any message for everyone in your groups, in a future update of WhatsApp beta for Android. A good moderation, finally. #WhatsApp.”
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Group administrators will be able to delete anyone’s message without their permission. The update will allow users to filter out inappropriate messages from group chats.
Whenever an admin deletes a message, a user will be notified that ‘This was deleted by an admin’.
In Telegram, a rival to WhatsApp, group admins can moderate chats. Currently, only the sender can delete the message sent in a group on WhatsApp.
(With inputs from ANI)
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