On the event of being involved in harmful or unethical activities, WhatsApp banned over 14,00,000 Indian users in February 2022.
According to Meta Owned, WhatsApp report, 14 Lakh Indian WhatsApp users were banned from using WhatsApp, for being involved in harmful activities on the platform, such as harassing users, forwarding fake news, and more.
The report is published in accordance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. Every social media intermediary has to comply with the IT rules 2021 and release a monthly transparency report on all the grievances the platforms received and what action did the platform take.
This is the ninth report published by WhatsApp.
In the words of WhatsApp –
“Over the years, we have consistently invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state-of-the-art technology, data scientists and experts, and in processes, in order to keep our users safe on our platform. In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we’ve published our ninth monthly report for the month of February 2022. This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform. As captured in the latest Monthly Report, WhatsApp banned over 1.4 million accounts in the month of February.”
Some tools were also deployed to keep a check on the harmful activities on the platform.
The abuse detection operates at three stages of an account’s lifestyle: at registration, during messaging, and in response to negative feedback, which WhatsApp receives in the form of user reports and blocks.
Accounts WhatsApp Banned in January 2022 – 18.5 lakh
Accounts WhatsApp Banned in Dec 2021 – 20 lakh
Seems like Indians are learning!
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