WhatsApp banned over 46 lakh accounts in India in February
In India, the Meta-owned WhatsApp has banned a record over 45 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of February, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.
Between February 1 and February 28, “4,597,400 WhatsApp accounts were banned and 1,298,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users”, WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report.
The most popular messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users in India, received another record 2,804 complaint reports in February in the country, and the records “actioned” were 504.
