TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

Samriddhi Sakunia / Rest of World:
Elections in India’s Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war, as the main political parties push content across thousands of groups to influence voters  —  10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people’s feed” in Gujarat.  —  • AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA

Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes:
At Code, CEOs and politicians voiced concerns about TikTok’s power, rapid growth, and surveillance potential, with some calling for it to be banned altogether  —  At the Code Conference in LA, tech and media CEOs and politicians all expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app — as a competitor, and as a national security risk.

Matthew Martin / Bloomberg:
Middle Eastern on-demand trucking platform TruKKer, which matches shippers and freight carriers, raised $100M from Investcorp and others ahead of a planned IPO  —  Middle Eastern logistics startup TruKKer raised $100 million from investors including Bahrain-based asset manager Investcorp …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Whenever US politicians talk about changing Section 230 or regulating Big Tech and websites, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment  —  The First Amendment is one of America’s most distinctive pieces of law.  But as the midterm — and, quickly, the presidential …

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Source: Parler has around 50,000 DAUs and its parent company had been trying over the last few weeks to sell the social network at a “wildly inflated” price  —  On Monday, Kanye West, now legally known as Ye, announced that he would buy Parler, an alternative social media platform …

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Parler restructures as Parlement Technologies after raising a $16M Series B and acquires Dynascale to offer “uncancelable” cloud services for online businesses  —  On Friday, Parler announced that it was entering the internet infrastructure industry in order to provide new …