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Concerns Rise as WhatsApp Becomes Campaign Tool in India

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WhatsApp faces scrutiny in India amid concerns about the role the app is playing in disseminating information ahead of crucial elections. Before a recent high-stakes election in the southern state of Karnataka, Rupesh Ramachandran was fed up with the barrage of messages he was receiving on the social messaging service owned by Facebook, which itself has come under fire in the United States in a privacy scandal. “I was getting bombarded with messages, campaign messages from a Congress...

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