WhatsApp has once again taken major action and banned the accounts of more than 85 lakh Indian users. This action of Meta’s instant messaging platform has been taken in the month of September. This information has been shared by the company in the monthly compliance report issued under the new IT Rule 2021. WhatsApp said that in the month of September, 16.58 lakh accounts have been proactively banned, that is, action has been taken on these accounts without any user reporting it.
Action under IT Rule 2021
In its compliance report, the instant messaging platform said that in the month of September, it had received a total of 8,161 complaints, out of which WhatsApp has taken action on 97. Apart from this, Meta’s platform also informed that it has received two orders from the Grievance Appellate Committee, on which action has been taken. The company has been releasing its compliance report every month since 2021, which contains information about the accounts banned and action taken.
According to the new IT Rule 2021, all social media platforms present in India (which have more than 50 thousand users) will have to release their compliance report every month. This report will contain information about the account reported by the user as well as any actions taken automatically by the company. Besides, details of the instructions given by the Grievance Appellate Committee also have to be given.
What did WhatsApp say?
WhatsApp has said in its compliance report that we will continue to maintain transparency in our work. The company further said that we have given users the freedom to block contacts and report any problematic content. They will be able to block any contact in the app itself. You can also report content. WhatsApp said that we take full care of the feedback of our users and focus on preventing any kind of misinformation, promoting cyber security and election integrity.
Even before this, in August, the company had banned 84.58 lakh WhatsApp accounts, out of which 16.61 lakh accounts have been banned by the company taking suo motu cognizance. Recently many new features have been added to WhatsApp, of which custom list is one. Through this feature, users can create a separate list for their favorite contacts and groups. Users will not face any problem in contacting them.
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