WhatsApp bans 2.4 million Indian accounts due to violations

WhatsApp banned 2.39 million Indian accounts in July, the most this year, according to a monthly report released by the Meta-owned popular instant messaging platform.

Owing to the Asian country’s tighter IT legislation, huge internet platforms are required to produce compliance reports every month.

According to Reuters, draft guidelines issued in June recommended establishing a panel to review user appeals and stated that major social media messaging platforms must allow identity of the primary creator of material if ordered to do so by courts.

1.42 million accounts were “proactively blocked” before any reports from users.

According to the social media platform, some accounts were blocked based on complaints received through the company’s grievances channel and the techniques and resources it utilises to detect such infractions. WhatsApp received a total of 574 complaints in July.

The messaging app, which has previously been chastised for spreading false news and hate speech in India and throughout the world, deactivated 2.21 million accounts in India in June.