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Another message from your “brother-in-law” on duty alerting you to a new pandemic. Or that they will charge for using WhatsApp. Or that a certain politician is doing things very badly and everyone knows it but nobody does anything... Does it ring a bell? They are hoaxes and messages of misinformation that spread from chat to chat and from group to group with almost no type of filter. They are usually lies or half-truths that only serve to create a climate of tension and subdue your thinking. But now there are more ways to deny them or find out if they are precisely that: hoaxes.
And we don't mean that you put on your glasses and researcher's hat to do the fact checking yourself or check each piece of information that is said in the message. We mean, rather, that the professionals in this field do it for you and resolve your doubt instantly. And now the Maldita.es website has an automatic service that tells you if the message you have received via WhatsApp is a hoax. Of course, you will have to learn to use your chat bot or conversation robot to contrast this information Here we tell you.
How to use the Maldita.es chat bot
This is an automated response service. A robot that understands what you say and answers you coherently. Basically it is the service that Maldita.es already provided with journalists, but now in an automated way to be able to attend to the volume of queries that arrive through WhatsAppAll you have to do is add a phone number to your phonebook and follow the instructions.
- Open your phone's phonebook.
- Click on the + button or on add contact and write down this number: +34 644 22 93 19. You can give it the name you want to recognize it: Deny hoaxes, Hoaxes wassap, Maldita.es… Whatever you prefer.
- Once you have saved the contact in your phonebook, open WhatsApp and click on the bubble icon in the lower left corner. As if you were going to open a new chat with a contact.
- The idea is that you start a conversation with the contact you just saved. Of course, you may have to first click on the three dots in the upper right corner and select the option Update to refresh the list of added contacts.Now look for the name that you have given to the contact and click on it.
- You just have to say hello to receive the first message from this chat bot, informing you of four possible actions: verify a content, receive the hoaxes of the day, receive information in the form of audio, or have more information about this automated service. Each option is numbered, so you only have to answer by writing a 1, a 2, a 3 or a 4.
How to know if a WhatsApp chain is a hoax
To verify a WhatsApp chain or message that you suspect is a hoax, you only have to take a couple of steps. Enter the Maldita.es chat bot conversation and say hello. Then send a 1 With this you can later send the message, photo or content that you want to deny.
This free service allows you to paste links or send images for comparison. However, if they are written hoaxes or strings you will have to describe the message Use the keywords that appear in the string so that the robot knows what you are talking about. You can even describe a video you received. All the dirty work to recognize what content it is and if it is a hoax or not is done automatically by the robot.
The conversation with the chat bot is completely private. And, like the rest of WhatsApp information, it is end-to-end encrypted. So no one else can access it, know you're using it, or collect your data.
