‘No! The government is doing no such thing’: PIB team busts myth about govt reading WhatsApp messages PIB Fact Check team released a screenshot of the fake message doing the rounds claiming that the government can read users’ WhatsApp messages SUMMARY The miscreants behind the misleading claim added fake WhatsApp indicators to create confusion According to their concocted information, three blue ticks were meant to imply that the government had taken note of the message PIB Fact Check clarified that the official WhatsApp platform does not use three ticks for message status The Government of India’s official Twitter channel, PIB Fact Check, has taken to social media to address a misleading claim circulating on WhatsApp. The claim suggested that the government was monitoring and reading individual messages on the messaging platform. PIB Fact Check released a statement to counter this assertion, stating that the claim was false. To explain the myth, they tweeted an image displaying various indicators used by WhatsApp to signify different message statuses. The message claimed that a single tick denotes that a message has been sent, while two blue ticks confirm that the message has been read. These are widely recognized features of WhatsApp. However, the
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