WhatsApp banned a total of 2.209 million accounts in India in September, showing compliance with new information technology (intermediary guidelines and digital media ethics) rules in the latest monthly transparency report released in 2021. WhatsApp stated that these accounts are in the interest of preventing online abuse and keeping the user experience safe and free of spam.
It bans accounts based on user complaints, emails received from the Indian complaint officer, and using its own automated tools to prevent harmful actions on the platform. In its fourth monthly transparency report, WhatsApp confirmed that users and the Indian complaint officer filed a total of 309 injunction appeals in September, of which 50 accounts were “acted.”
A total of 560 user queries were received in the same time period. Among them, 309 are injunction appeals, 121 are inquiries about account support, and WhatsApp has received 49 reports about products and other support. WhatsApp also received 32 reports on security.
The data released by WhatsApp is from September 1st to September 30th. Only 50 bans were imposed by WhatsApp through reports from users and the Indian complaint officer.
The remaining 2.209 million accounts used WhatsApp’s own tools and resources to detect behaviors that were prohibited in September to prevent harmful behaviors on the platform.
News Source : Gadgets 360
