What Does This Mean?
Spanish term for a message that people are asked to forward to many contacts on WhatsApp, often with a threat, a promise of luck or an alarming warning. Many of them are hoaxes or scams, such as the recurring claims that WhatsApp will start charging per message or that the logo will turn blue if the text is forwarded to ten contacts.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"«Mi tía me reenvió otra cadena de WhatsApp que decía que se iba a cobrar la app», dijo él."
LORE & ORIGIN
Maldita.es, a Spanish fact-checking outlet, publishes debunks of recurring WhatsApp chain messages, including one on the false claim that WhatsApp would charge 0,01 euros per message and that the logo would turn blue if the chain was forwarded to 10 contacts (dated 22 Nov 2019 in its URL), and another headline stating that WhatsApp would not limit all forwarded messages, only those already shared five or more times (7 Apr 2020 in its URL). The format is the digital continuation of the older chain letter. No dated first use of the phrase "cadena de WhatsApp" found yet.
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