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 (Samriddhi Sakunia/Rest of World)

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World:
WhatsApp users in India say the service, which has ~550M users in the country, has become overrun by spam from brands, some using WhatsApp’s business tools  —  Revenue pressures forced WhatsApp to turn to e-commerce, and now the company is contending with a plague of spammers.  —  • BENGALURU, INDIA

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
TikTok expands its political content rules to limit fundraising by politicians and political groups, ahead of a full ban on fundraising  —  Starting Wednesday, TikTok is expanding its elections rules to make it harder for politicians and political groups to fundraise using the platform — and plans to ban all fundraising activity soon.

Ashley Gold / Axios:
Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders this week, following pressure from politicians  —  Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders this week, the company told Axios.

Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Source: nearly a month after Google launched a pilot to keep political campaign emails from going to Gmail’s spam folder, RNC hasn’t joined or applied to it  —  With only weeks until Election Day, the Republican National Committee is escalating its war over Gmail’s spam filters in what critics deem …

Axios:
The RNC sues Google for allegedly putting its campaign emails in Gmail spam; the RNC has been criticizing Google’s pilot to keep campaign emails out of spam  —  The Republican National Committee (RNC) has filed a lawsuit against Google in a U.S. district court in California for allegedly putting …

Jon Keegan / The Markup:
A look at data brokers selling campaigns “comprehensive” profiles on potential voters, including phone geolocation data gleaned from real-time ad auctions  —  Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements