You can now fact check anybodys post in WhatsApp heres how
Date:
Fri, 02 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000
Description:
Perplexitys new WhatsApp integration can provide fact-checks to
misinformation.
FULL STORY
AI conversational search engine Perplexity and its new WhatsApp integration
can provide more than just idle conversation. It can help you figure out the truth amid the rumors and half-remembered anecdotes that might appear in a group chat. You can get Perplexity to immediately fact-check your group
chats.
Perplexity's real-time provision of truth is easy to get. You just forward
any questionable WhatsApp message to Perplexity's number, +1 (833) 436-3285, and the AI will explain in seconds whether the claim holds up or belongs in
the digital trash. You can forward screenshots, messages, images with a quote that Einstein definitely said, and any other bit of suspicious information.
Just save the number to your contacts, open WhatsApp, forward the message you want checked, and hit send. The feature works in over 20 languages, and, because it's Perplexity, you'll get links to the sources for the facts, providing you with the receipts to prove to whoever made the claim that they are wrong.
Lets say your cousin shares a sketchy video about some major global event or celebrity death. You dont have to leave WhatsApp, open your browser, do a
deep search, then return to the group. You can just forward the post to Perplexitys number and get a result and the quiet moral satisfaction of
knowing you're right without needing to launch a full group argument.
Keeping quiet also sidesteps the question of privacy. After all, they may not approve of you sharing their messages and images with an AI chatbot without their permission. Few would feel good about their private messages being used as factual errors to train an AI. Meta AI might get away with it through the terms and conditions of WhatsApp, as they are both owned by Meta, but how
that works with regard to Perplexity is less clear. You can now forward any WhatsApp message to Perplexity: +1 (833) 436-3285 and get it fact checked instantly. This is super useful when WhatsApp groups are filled with a ton of forwarded messages which could be misleading.
Perplexity facts
The fact-checking is essentially just a narrower use case for Perplexity and its real-time web search capabilities. But it's a potentially very enticing element of the WhatsApp integration for Perplexity.
Not that the AI developer is stopping with just that feature. The company has hinted at plans to expand beyond one-on-one message forwarding. You might see Perplexity popping up in your WhatsApp group chats like Meta AI does. Perplexity could possibly even be set up to respond automatically when
sketchy messages drop.
Placing a fact-checker into WhatsApp won't necessarily convince anyone that they're wrong, but it might help you prove to yourself that you aren't losing your mind when an estranged relative insists that the moon disappeared for a week recently. Of course, there's still the social etiquette to figure out. Will forwarding a relatives post for fact-checking make Thanksgiving awkward? Possibly. But if theyre circulating garlic water cures baldness, maybe thats
a small price to pay.
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/you-can-now-fact-c heck-anybodys-post-in-whatsapp-heres-how
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