2.3 million Indian accounts banned in August, says WhatsApp report

WhatsApp banned over 2.3 Indian accounts in August, of which over one million accounts were proactively taken down before any report from users, the messaging platform said on Saturday.

This is lower than level seen in the previous month. Over 2.3 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp in July. “Between 1 August, 2022 and 31 August, 2022, 2,328,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 1,008,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users,” WhatsApp said in monthly report.

Over 2.2 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp in June on the basis of complaints received via its grievance redressal channel and through its own mechanism to detect violations. Earlier, 1.9 million such accounts were banned by WhatsApp in May, 1.6 million accounts in April, and 1.8 million in March.