Summary:
A spate of mob lynching incidents, and a warning from India, prompted WhatsApp to regulate forwards.Kerala, too, had witnessed untoward incidents that followed fake messages. “Hate messages that can lead to mob lynching would have a deeper impact on a lesser educated society. He added the Kerala society here was of more collectivists as compared to the west where there were more individualists.“Our society thinks as a collective leading to incidents like mob lynching. KOCHI: WhatsApp’s decision to limit the number of times a message could be forwarded has come as a relief for the law enforcement agencies in the state. In February last, a transgender person was brutally beaten up in Thiruvananthapuram , suspecting her to be a kidnapper..