WhatsApp claims to have blocked over 2 million accounts in less than a month in order to prevent harmful behaviour.
The majority (95 percent) of the 2 million suspended accounts were for automated mass texting, according to WhatsApp. WhatsApp claims that between May 15 and June 15, 2021, it banned 20 lakh accounts in an effort to curb disruptive behaviour. The corporation announced that it had banned 20,11,000 accounts in this one-month period in its first transparency report, which was published under the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. The messaging platform, which is owned by Facebook, recognises .The +91 country code of the mobile number used to register is used to create Indian accounts. It further stated that India alone accounts for 25% of all banned accounts worldwide. On Thursday, WhatsApp released the first edition of its intermediary standards report, in which the firm emphasised its own efforts to avoid harmful behaviour. "Our primary priority is to prevent ...