#Election2019: How WhatsApp and political parties are playing cat and mouse over spamming
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A newspaper vendor in New Delhi reading a newspaper with an anti-misinformation advertisement from WhatsApp on July 10, 2018
Synopsis
Even as WhatsApp takes steps to fight spam, misinformation, and abuse on its platform, India's political parties are trying to stay a few steps ahead. At times with extreme workarounds.
With just over six months left for India’s general election, Facebook-owned messenger service WhatsApp has been cleaning up its platform in the country. An ongoing exercise to fight spam, abuse, and misuse of its platform has resulted in nearly 250,000 to 300,000 India-based accounts being blocked and deleted, according to multiple persons aware of the development. This crackdown, sources say, have come over the last month. A significant number
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