WhatsApp Bans Over 66 Lakh Bad Accounts In India: All Details – News18

Meta-owned WhatsApp banned a report of over 66 lakh unhealthy accounts in India within the month of June, in compliance with the brand new IT Rules 2021.

Between June 1-30, “6,611,700 WhatsApp accounts had been banned and a couple of,434,200 of those accounts had been proactively banned, earlier than any reviews from customers”, WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report on Wednesday.

The most popular messaging platform, which has over 500 million users in the country, received another record 7,893 complaint reports in June in the country, and the records “actioned” had been 337.

“Accounts Actioned” denotes reports where WhatsApp took remedial action based on the report and taking action denotes either banning an account or a previously banned account being restored as a result.

“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,” in accordance with the corporate.

Moreover, the corporate talked about that the orders obtained from the Grievance Appellate Committee between June 1 and June 30 was 1, and orders complied with was additionally 1.

In a bid to empower hundreds of thousands of Indian social media customers, the Centre lately launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) that may look into their considerations concerning content material and different points. The newly-formed panel, a transfer to strengthen the nation’s digital legal guidelines to tame the Big Tech firms, will look into appeals by customers in opposition to choices of social media platforms.

In a serious push in direction of an open, protected, trusted and accountable Internet, the Ministry of Electronics and IT has notified some amendments geared toward defending the rights of ‘Digital Nagriks’.

(This story has been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – IANS)