WhatsApp Banned More Than 2 Million Indian Accounts In September: Report

Published:Nov 29, 202307:27
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WhatsApp Banned More Than 2 Million Indian Accounts In September: Report

WhatsApp banned greater than 2 million accounts in India throughout September 2021

More than 2.2 million Indian accounts had been banned by WhatsApp whereas 560 grievance stories had been obtained by the messaging platform in September, in keeping with its compliance report.In its newest report launched on Monday, WhatsApp mentioned 2,209,000 Indian accounts on the platform had been banned in September.An Indian account is recognized by way of a ''+91'' cellphone quantity, it added.(*2*) a WhatsApp spokesperson mentioned.In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, WhatsApp has revealed its fourth month-to-month report for the 30-day interval of September 1-30, 2021."This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp as well as WhatsApp's own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform," the spokesperson mentioned.Previously, the Facebook-owned firm had said that greater than 95 per cent of the ban was as a result of unauthorised use of automated or bulk messaging (spam). The world common variety of accounts that WhatsApp bans to stop abuse on its platform is round 8 million accounts monthly.WhatsApp, in its newest report, mentioned it obtained 560 consumer stories spanning throughout account assist (121), ban attraction (309), different assist and product assist (49 every) and security (32) throughout September.
During this era, 51 accounts had been actioned based mostly on the stories obtained.WhatsApp defined that "Accounts Actioned" denotes remedial motion taken based mostly on the stories.
Taking motion denotes both banning an account or a beforehand banned account being restored on account of the grievance.


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