WhatsApp Banned 1.3 Crore Accounts In India Since May 2021: Here's Why
As part of new IT rules in India, WhatsApp reported its monthly banned users for December on Thursday. In just the last month of 2021, Meta-owned WhatsApp banned 20,00,000 accounts in India.
Since the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code came into effect in India, the instant messaging application claims to have banned over 1,32,24,000 (13 million or 1.3 crore) accounts on the app.
2 million bans in just December
According to the compliance report by WhatsApp, 2 million accounts were banned in just December 2021, up from 1.75 million banned accounts in November.
Out of the 20,79,000 accounts that were banned in December, 95% were involved in unauthorised use of bulk messaging. In essence, this implies that the messages in question were either carriers of misinformation or were simply forwarding certain messages to too many contacts repeatedly.
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For December 2021, WhatsApp received 528 grievance reports. Out of these 149 were support requests while 303 were ban appeals. In addition to these, 29 were other support requests, 34 for product support, and 13 safety requests.
How are accounts banned on WhatsApp?
Has your WhatsApp account been banned? There could be multiple reasons for the same. For starters, you could have forwarded messages with misinformation in bulk. If you were also involved in abusive behaviour, that could explain the ban on your account... among many reasons.
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WhatsApp follows end-to-end encryption, implying it cannot read your messages. Instead of seeing the contents of messages, WhatsApp picks up on certain patterns to see who could be indulging in wrongful behaviour. These include the date of account creation, the medium used to send messages, and whether users are reporting the account in question.
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