WhatsApp banned more than 18 lakh accounts in India, know the reason

WhatsApp has taken action after complaints received from Indian users and has banned more than 1.85 million (18 lakh) accounts in the month of March this year. According to IT Rules 2021, WhatsApp has released its tenth user safety monthly report. The company has taken action against some accounts for violating Indian laws or WhatsApp’s terms of service. In its report, WhatsApp has informed about this action.

Report It shows that in the month of March, users sent a total of 597 complaints to WhatsApp. Of these, 112 complaints were related to accounting support. The account ban was appealed through 407 complaints. 37 complaints were related to product support and 13 were related to safety. 28 complaints were about other support. Of these, action was taken on 74 requests. All of these were related to the ban. One thing should be kept in mind here that action means banning an account or restoring a banned account.

A WhatsApp spokesperson said that we are an industry leader in preventing abuse between end-to-end encrypted messaging services. Over the years, we have invested in Artificial Intelligence and other technologies to ensure the safety of users on the platform. WhatsApp spokesperson said that we have published our report for the month of March as per IT Rules 2021. More than 1.8 million accounts have been banned. It is noteworthy that WhatsApp had banned more than 1.4 million (14 lakh) Indian accounts in February also.

WhatsApp says it detects abuse using its own automated tools that operate across three phases of an account’s lifecycle: during registration, during messaging, and in response to negative feedback, which it then reports and blocks. Is received in the form. The instant messaging platform says a team of analysts helps these functions evaluate high-level cases and improve effectiveness over time. To report any complaint to WhatsApp, users can e-mail wa@support.whatsapp.com or report and block suspicious accounts using the buttons available in the app.