Social networking App Whatsapp has refused the find the origin of the message on its platform and also refused to give it to India. The Government of India has urged the company to develop such a mechanism after ascending the rumors on WhatsApp, after the growing incidents of violence, to identify the source of the message.

A spokesman of Whatsapp said that by making such software, the decode will be affected from one end to the other, and the personal nature of the whatsapp will also be affected. At the same time it will create more chances of misuse and we do not want to weaken the protection of privacy. So the company can not develop such software. Our focus is on working with others in India and educating people about wrong information. Through this, we want to keep people safe.

Whatsapp chief Chris Daniels met India's Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad this week, in which there was talk of stopping rumor messages.

The number of WhatsApp users in the world is about 1.5 billion. India is the largest market for the company. The number of people using it in India is more than 200 million.

Whatsapp said that the disclosure of the original source of messages will disrupt user privacy. People are dependent on exchanging all kinds of sensitive information through whatsapp. Whether it be his doctor, bank or family member. In such a situation, if their sources are revealed, personal information may leak.

The intention of the Government of India is to take strict measures to prevent the spread of fake news from social media platform like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. In the past few months there has been a spread of false information from the Forum of Whatsapp, which has increased the incidence of mob violence in India.

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