WhatsApp Banned 2.6 Mn Indian Accounts In Sept

WhatsApp on Tuesday said that it banned 2.68 million accounts in the month of September. 

The messaging platform banned these Indian accounts between 1 September and 30 September 2022 using the abuse detection approach, which includes action taken in furtherance to negative feedback received from users via our “Report” feature.

From the total of 2,685,000 banned accounts, 8,72,000 were proactively banned before any reports from users.

WhatsApp had received 666 reports in September and 23 of these were actioned upon by the platform.

“We respond to al grievances received except in cases where a grievance is deemed to be a duplicate of a previous ticket. An account is ‘actioned’ when an account is banned or a previously banned account is restored, as a result of a complaint,” said WhatsApp in its statement.