Meta-owned WhatsApp banned over 23 lakh dangerous accounts in India in July in compliance with the brand new IT Rules, 2021, the corporate stated on Thursday.

WhatsApp moreover acquired 574 criticism studies within the month of July in India, and the information “actioned” had been 27.

The platform with over 400 million customers within the nation had restricted over 22 lakh accounts with dangerous information in June.

“In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we have printed our report for the month of July 2022. As captured within the newest month-to-month report, WhatsApp banned over 2.3 million accounts (2,387,000) within the month of July,” an organization spokesperson stated.

Published in accordance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the report contained knowledge on actions made by WhatsApp in mild of complaints acquired from customers in India.

The objections had been acquired through the grievance mechanisms and accounts had been actioned by means of its prevention and detection strategies for violating the legal guidelines of the land or its phrases of service.

Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, main digital and social media platforms, with in extra of 5 million customers, must publish month-to-month compliance studies.

“WhatsApp is an business chief in stopping abuse, amongst end-to-end encrypted messaging providers. Over the years, we’ve got constantly invested in Artificial Intelligence and different state-of-the-art know-how, knowledge scientists and specialists, and processes, to be able to preserve our customers secure on our platform,” stated the corporate spokesperson.

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