WhatsApp banned more than 26 lakh accounts in India

Messaging service WhatsApp has banned about 26.85 lakh accounts in India in September. Of these, 8.72 lakh have been banned by the company before receiving complaints from users. The number of accounts blocked by WhatsApp is approximately 15 percent more compared to August.

Meta’s unit WhatsApp, which runs social media site Facebook, had banned 23.28 lakh accounts in August. whatsapp In its user safety report for the month of September, WhatsApp said, “Around 26,85,000 WhatsApp accounts have been banned between September 1 and 30. Of these, around 8,72,000 accounts were banned even before receiving any reports from users.” Has gone.”

The stringent IT rules implemented last year have made it mandatory for big digital platforms to publish compliance reports every month. WhatsApp’s report states that it had received 666 complaints in September and action has been taken against only 12 of them. The central government is amending IT rules to make social media platforms like Twitter legally accountable for preventing banned and misinformation content. The government has made it clear that these platforms operating in the country will have to follow the laws of the country as well as take care of the constitutional rights of the users.

There is a provision to create an Appellate Committee in the new rules, which can cancel the decisions of big tech companies on requests related to removing or blocking content. Social media companies have been accused of being negligent regarding content or not resolving complaints quickly. IT State Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that with the change in IT rules, complaints regarding content on social media companies will be resolved quickly. He said that due to the careless attitude of social media platforms towards such complaints, it was necessary to change these rules. He said that such attitude cannot be accepted. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, one of the big electric car companies, last week completed the deal to buy Twitter for about $44 billion. With this, Musk has become the owner of one of the social media apps having a big impact around the world.