WhatsApp Bans Over 45 lakh Accounts In India In February
New Delhi, 2nd April 2023: According to the company’s announcement on Saturday (April 1), Meta-owned WhatsApp prohibited a record-breaking over 45 lakh bad accounts in India during February following the new IT Rules 2021.
According to WhatsApp’s monthly compliance report, between February 1 and February 28, “4,597,400 WhatsApp accounts were banned, and 1,298,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users.”
The most widely used messaging app, which has almost 500 million users nationwide, got 2,804 complaint reports, a new record, in February. Of those, 504 were “acted upon.”
According to a company spokesperson, “This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the appropriate action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s preventive measures to combat abuse on our platform.”
The representative continued, “We will continue to be transparent in our work and include information about our efforts in subsequent reports.
Meanwhile, the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC), which will look into their complaints regarding content and other issues, was recently established by the Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar to empower millions of Indian social media users.
The recently established group will examine user appeals against decisions made by social media platforms as part of an effort to strengthen the nation’s digital laws and rein in Big Tech companies.
As required by the newly amended IT Rules, 2021, the IT Ministry issued a notification last month directing the creation of three GACs.
