New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp banned over 23 lakh bad accounts in India in October in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.
Between October 1 and October 31, 23,24,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 8,11,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users, said the company.
The messaging platform, which has more than 400 million users in the country, received 701 complaint reports in October in India, and the records āactionedā were 34.
āIn accordance with the IT Rules 2021, weāve published our report for the month of October 2022. As captured in the latest Monthly Report, WhatsApp banned over 2.3 million accounts in the month of October,ā said a WhatsApp spokesperson.
Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, major digital and social media platforms, with in excess of 5 million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports.
Meanwhile, in a major push towards an open, safe, trusted, and accountable Internet, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has notified some amendments aimed at protecting the rights of āDigital Nagriksā.
The amendments impose a legal obligation on intermediaries to take reasonable efforts to prevent users from uploading such content.
