WhatsApp has announced that it has banned about 2 million accounts in India during October 2021. The fifth monthly compliance report says that 2,069,000 Indian accounts were banned on WhatsApp between October 1 and October 31 through its abuse detection technology.
It is less compared to the 2.2 million Indian accounts it banned in September. The company also said it received 500 grievance reports from users – account support (146), ban appeal (248), other support (42) and product support (53 each), and safety (11).
Out of 500, 18 accounts were actioned under the ban appeal category based on the report received. “Accounts Actioned” denotes reports where it took remedial action based on the report.
WhatsApp has been publishing these monthly reports since July in line with the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
WhatsApp, in a statement, said:
In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we’ve published our fifth monthly report for the month of October. This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform.
This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform. As captured in the latest monthly report, WhatsApp banned over 2 million accounts in the month of October.