WhatsApp bans over 23.8 lakh accounts in India in July- Check details

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Every month, WhatsApp releases a report informing about the accounts it bans if it finds them violating rules. According to the information provided by the online messaging application under the India Monthly Report under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, between July 1 and July 31, 2022, 23,87,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. While over 14.16 lakh accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users. It can be known that in the month of June 2022, 22,10,000 accounts were banned by WhatsApp in India on the basis of complaints received via its grievance redressal channel and through its own mechanism to detect violations.

"Between 1 July 2022 and 31 July 2022, 2,387,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 1,416,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users," WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report. The messaging platform further informed that the data shared highlights the number of Indian accounts banned by WhatsApp between July 1, 2022 and July 31, 2022 using the abuse detection approach, which also includes action taken in furtherance to negative feedback received from users via the app's “Report” feature.

Explaining how WhatsApp tackles abuse, the messaging platform informed, in addition to responding to and actioning on user complaints through the grievance channel, the app also deploys tools and resources to prevent harmful behavior on the platform.

"The abuse detection operates at three stages of an account's lifestyle: at registration, during messaging, and in response to negative feedback, which we receive in the form of user reports and blocks. A team of analysts augments these systems to evaluate edge cases