WhatsApp announced plans to introduce Communities, a feature that aims to group similar interest groups.
A Community is essentially a collection of groups. Users can create a community by adding groups with a similar theme.
Community administrators can then manage groups and send messages to all groups at once.
The company will also reduce its ability to forward group messages more than five times at a time, in an effort to reduce the spread of misinformation within community groups.
This option will be introduced this week to a select group of users and will then be available to others as well.