In India, WhatsApp is a weapon of antisocial hatred
(WorldNews Asia)

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rohit Chopra, Santa Clara University (THE CONVERSATION) A general election in India, the world´s most populous democracy, seems a theoretical impossibility. Collecting the votes of nearly a billion people across a staggeringly diverse subcontinent has for more than half a century faced challenges of logistics, politics, economics, violence and law. This year, a new challenge has arisen in the form of social media - specifically the text messaging app WhatsApp, owned by Facebook. Hate speech, disinformation and scary rumors on the platform are already responsible for violence and...