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WhatsApp bans nearly 1.5 mn accounts in India in February; know how to restore account
WhatsApp ban: Like every month, WhatsApp has released its monthly user safety report. The report highlights that the instant messaging platform has banned 1,426,000 India-based accounts in the month of February. This is the ninth user safety report released by WhatsApp. In this month, it captured information between the period of February 1-28, 2022. The banned accounts were identified as Indian accounts based on the country code +91 at the beginning of the number. The report is published under Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.