Details of WhatsApp banning over 67 lakh ‘bad’ Indian accounts in January
Meta-owned WhatsApp banned over 67,000,000 bad accounts in India in January under new IT rules 2021.
Between January 1 and 31, the company banned “6,728,000 accounts.” About 1,358,000 of those accounts were proactively banned before users reported them, WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report.
The most popular messaging platform, which has more than 500 million users in the country, again received a record 14,828 complaint reports in the country in January, with 10 “actions”.
“Accounts Actioned” means reports where WhatsApp took corrective action based on the report, and taking action means either banning the account or reinstating a previously banned account as a result.
“This user safety report includes information on user complaints received and the corresponding actions taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform,” according to the company.
To empower India’s millions of social media users, the central government has set up a Grievance Committee (GAC) to look into their concerns about content and other issues.
A newly formed panel to strengthen the country’s digital laws to tame Big Tech companies is looking into user complaints about decisions by social media platforms.
“We are an industry leader among end-to-end encrypted messaging services in preventing and combating abuse. In addition to our security features and governance, we employ engineers, data scientists, analysts, researchers and experts in law enforcement, network security and technology development to monitor these efforts,” WhatsApp said in a statement.
In December last year, WhatsApp banned over 69 lakh bad accounts in the country.
