WhatsApp Banned Nearly 24 Lakh Indian s in July 204z6o 14 Lakh s 'Proactively' Disabled: All Details

WhatsApp's removal of nearly 24 lakh s is the highest since March, when 18 lakh s were removed. 3m1x

Written by David Delima | Updated: 1 September 2022 21:56 IST

WhatsApp Banned Nearly 24 Lakh Indian s in July, 14 Lakh s 'Proactively' Disabled: All Details

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WhatsApp bans s based on reports and its own detection systems

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WhatsApp says a majority of s were banned without reports
The company publishes monthly reports in compliance with the IT Rules
WhatsApp banned 19 lakh s in July

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WhatsApp removed nearly 24 lakh s in India in July, the company stated in its monthly compliance report. The Meta-owned messaging service is an intermediary under the IT Rules, and publishes monthly reports on actions taken against s on the platform. According to WhatsApp, 14 lakh s were banned 'proactively', which means they were removed without receiving any reports from s. On Wednesday, Facebook and Instagram revealed that a total of 2.7 crore posts on the social media platforms were removed in July.

According to WhatsApp's latest report titled 'India Monthly Report under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021' the messaging service banned over 23,87,000 s in India in July.

IT Rules, as well as its own systems to identify s violating its of service.

It is worth noting that the company's removal of nearly 24 lakh s is the highest since March, when 22 lakh s were banned in June.

WhatsApp also has to acknowledge and address complaints from s under the grievance redressal mechanism mandated by the IT Rules. The firm says that it received 574 reports, acting on 27 of them.

The highest number of reports were related to ban appeals, and the company says that it actioned 27 of these s. Meanwhile, the company marked 116 reports for , 13 reports for safety and other reports as not actioned.

On Wednesday, Meta Facebook, which is an intermediary under the IT Rules, took down 1.73 crore spam posts and 23 lakh posts for violent and graphic content, as part of its efforts to comply with the government's regulations for social media platforms.

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