With Lok Sabha Elections 2019 two months away, WhatsApp is expected to be as much of a political battlefield as the ground rallies. On Monday, Carl Woog, WhatsApp’s head of communications, admitted that political parties in India have been observed to have misused the app during elections.

During a workshop held to explain the tools that the messaging app will be deploying to tackle misinformation and abuse in the run up to elections, Woog said they had observed how their platform was used during the Karnataka elections