WhatsApp keeps on taking action to ban suspected users in India from time to time. The latest report provides information from the platform that it has banned 26.85 lakh users’ accounts in India in September. Earlier, the number of users banned in the month i.e. August was 23.28 lakhs. The platform has banned 15% more users in September. Not only this, 8.72 lakh users were such that they were banned before they were flagged by other users.
Releasing the September user safety report, the company said that between September 1 and September 30, it has banned 26 lakh 85 thousand users. The Indian account is identified with a +91 phone number. Under the new IT rules implemented last year, digital platforms, who have more than 5 million users, have to publish the Compliance Report every month. In this, the company will tell how many users have received a complaint and what action was taken for it.
Large social media platforms had been used more for inflammatory speeches, wrong information and fake news spread in the recent past. In view of this, the government became strict and now digital platforms are also strictly treating such users, and they are banned.
Apart from this, WhatsApp is also working on a new feature called ‘Self-Messaging Feature’. This will be such a feature that you will be able to send a message to yourself. At the moment you are not able to send any message to yourself on WhatsApp, if you have to receive your own message, then first you have to send it to a close. But the new feature will end this problem. The feature is currently in beta testing phase, soon the company is preparing to roll it out.
