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WhatsApp banned 2.39 million Indian accounts in July, the peak so far this year, the Meta (META.O)-owned standard instant messaging app said late on Thursday in its monthly report.
The Asian nation’s stricter IT laws have made it essential for large digital platforms to publish compliance reports every month.
Draft rules spread in June (https://bit.ly/3KIrfuM) planned setting up a panel to hear user appeals, and said that significant social media messaging platforms shall allow identification of the first inventor of information if directed by courts to do so.
Of the accounts barred, 1.42 million were “proactively banned,” before any reports from users. (https://bit.ly/3wPqRoW)
Several accounts were banned based on complaints received over the company’s grievances channel and the tools and resources it uses to notice such offences, the social media platform said. In July, WhatsApp received a total of 574 complaint reports.
The messaging platform, which has been criticized former for spreading fake news and hate speech in the country, as well as to another place in the world, had taken down 2.21 million accounts in India in June.