New Delhi, August 02, 2022 (PPI-OT):WhatsApp banned over 22 lakh Indian accounts in June, this year, on the basis of complaints received via its grievance redresal channel and through its own mechanism to detect violations, the messaging platform said. The WhatsApp banned 19 lakh such accounts in May, 16 lakh in April, and 18.05 lakh such accounts in March.
Under new tougher IT rules, which introduced by the Indian government last year, it is mandatory for the large digital platforms (with over 50 lakh users) to publish compliance reports every month, mentioning the details of complaints received and action taken. “As captured in the latest monthly report, WhatsApp banned over 2.2 million accounts in the month of June,” WhatsApp spokesperson said as the Meta-owned platform published its latest monthly update.
As per the report, 22.10 lakh Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp between June 1 and June 30, 2022 using the “abuse detection approach, which also includes action taken in furtherance to negative feedback received from users…” As many as 632 grievance reports were received, and 64 accounts were “actioned” during June 2022. The Indian government had last year notified IT rules to make digital firms more accountable and responsible for content hosted on their platforms.
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