As per Meta reports, WhatsApp accounts banned in India in September exceeded the number for August 2022.
The number of WhatsApp accounts banned in India in September were 15 per cent more than the 23.28 lakh accounts banned in August.
“Between 1 September, 2022 and 30 September, 2022, 2,685,000 WhatsApp accounts banned in India. 872,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users. An Indian account is identified via a +91 phone number,” WhatsApp said in its ‘User Safety Report’ for the month of September.
The government has made IT rules tougher to prevent misinformation, but still there’s much more to be done.
Big social media firms have drawn flak in the past over hate speech, misinformation and fake news circulating on their platforms. Concerns have been flagged by some quarters time and again over digital platforms acting arbitrarily in pulling down content, and ‘de-platforming’ users.
“In addition to responding to and actioning on user complaints through the grievance channel, WhatsApp also deploys tools and resources to prevent harmful behaviour 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 company said.
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