After false messages on WhatsApp last year sparked mob lynchings in India, the company restricted forwarding of a message to only five users. The software tools appear to overcome those restrictions, allowing users to reach thousands at once. At least three software tools were available on Amazon.com’s India website. Some Congress workers said they did not care. “How many messages you want to send, tell us: 10,000, 1 million, 2 million,” a representative asked, while showing a black-coloured, password- protected website they use for sending bulk WhatsApp messages.

Source: The Telegraph May 16, 2019 00:11 UTC