More than 22 lakh Indian WhatsApp accounts were banned in June, learn the reason for this action

Following the new IT rules, WhatsApp, owned by Meta, banned more than 2.2 million WhatsApp accounts in India in June. The platform received a total of 632 complaints, out of which 64 were acted upon. These facts have been revealed in ‘India Monthly Report Under the Information Technology Rules, 2021’. In a statement, a company spokesperson has said that the WhatsApp is the industry leader in preventing misuse among the end-to-end encrypted messaging services. In the last few years, we have invested in artificial intelligence to high -tech techniques, data scientists and experts and all the procedures to keep users safe on our platforms.

The company has taken action on some accounts for violating the terms of Indian laws and WhatsApp service. In its report, WhatsApp has told about this action. According to a media report, the platform has banned more than 2.2 million accounts in India in June. The report states that 426 requests and 16 complaints were made for security reasons for banning the account. After this, action was taken on 64 accounts.

How does WhatsApp deal with misconduct? Under this, the report states that in addition to reacting and taking action to the complaints of users, WhatsApp also deploys tools and reserves on its platform, which prevent wrong behavior.

WhatsApp says that using your tool operates in three phases to detect misconduct: during registration, during messaging and in the response of negative feedback. According to WhatsApp, an analyst team evaluates these functions.

For any complaint from WhatsApp, users can e-mail on wa@assestance.whatsapp.com. Apart from this, suspicious accounts can also be reported through the app. Earlier in March, WhatsApp had banned more than 1.85 million (18 lakh) accounts.