WhatsApp bans 26.85 lakh accounts in September in India, 15% greater than August

Meta-owned prompt messaging platform WhatsApp banned 26.85 lakh accounts in India in September. This contains 8.72 lakh accounts which had been barred proactively earlier than being flagged by customers, the corporate stated on Tuesday.

Notably, the variety of accounts blocked in September had been 15 per cent greater than the 23.28 lakh accounts the messaging platform banned in August.

Moreover, the moment messaging platform stated in its ‘User Safety Report’ for the month of September, “Between September 01, 2022 and September 30, 2022, a total of 2,685,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 872,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users. An Indian account is identified via a 91 phone number.”

The harder IT guidelines, which got here into impact in 2021, mandated giant digital platforms (with over 50 lakh customers) to publish compliance stories each month, mentioning the small print of complaints acquired and motion taken.

Big social media platforms have drawn flak up to now over hate speech, misinformation and faux information circulating on their platforms. Concerns have been flagged by some quarters again and again over digital platforms performing arbitrarily in knocking down content material, and ‘de-platforming’ customers.

The authorities final week introduced guidelines for establishing a grievance attraction mechanism towards arbitrary content material moderation, inaction, or take down selections of massive tech corporations.

According to the most recent WhatsApp report, the platform acquired 666 grievances in September however took motion solely towards 23.

“In addition to responding to and actioning on user complaints through the grievance channel, WhatsApp also deploys tools and resources to prevent harmful behavior on the platform. We are particularly focused on prevention because we believe it is much better to stop harmful activity from happening in the first place than to detect it after harm has occurred,” the corporate defined.

WhatsApp had reportedly banned over 23.87 lakh Indian accounts in July. From the banned accounts, over 14 lakh accounts had been proactively taken down earlier than any report from customers, stated the messaging platform and the July numbers are the best seen up to now within the present fiscal, information company PTI report stated.

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