India Bans Over 71 Lakh WhatsApp Accounts in September
Meta-owned popular instant messaging app WhatsApp took action against over 71 lakh bad accounts in India under the new IT rules of 2021.
According to the report, the communication platform banned at least 71,11,000 accounts in the country between 1 and 30. September About 25,71,000 of these accounts were proactively banned before users failed to report.
India, which has a huge user base of over 500 million people on the platform, also saw a remarkable 10,442 complaint reports in September, with WhatsApp handling 85 percent of those reports.
“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 measures to combat abuse on our platform,” according to the company.
In September, the application owned by Meta received only six orders from the appeal board in the country and fulfilled it. The Center recently established a Grievance Committee (GAC) to address user concerns about content and related issues. The aim of this panel is to strengthen digital regulations and deal with user complaints about decisions made by social media platforms.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to archive community group chats. The community group chat menu has a new function called “archive chat”. This option allows users to manage community group chats as it is now possible to archive them.
This feature is especially useful for those community members who are in multiple community group chats and want to keep their chat list cleaner and more organized.
The report suggested that this feature is very useful because it was no longer possible to archive community group chats after installing the update, which improved the community’s navigation between such group chats, which definitely made the user experience worse.
