Meta-owned WhatsApp banned more than 65 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of May, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021, the company said on Sunday.
On May full month 6,508,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 2,420,700 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users in the country.
In the month of April, WhatsApp, which has more than 500 million users in India, had banned a record over 74 lakh bad accounts.
WhatsApp also received 3,912 grievance reports like “ban appeals” in May in the country, and the records “actioned” were 297. “Accounts Actioned” denotes reports where WhatsApp took remedial action based on the report and taking action denotes either banning an account or a previously banned account being restored as a result.
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