WhatsApp ban on abuse: App blocks 20 lakh accounts in India

Indicating it is quite serious about its no-nonsense policy, WhatsApp has banned as many as 20 lakh accounts in India for the month of August, 2021. WhatsApp also said that 420 grievance reports were received by the messaging platform in August. WhatsApp revealed these stats in its compliance report released on Tuesday. WhatsApp said exactly 20,70,000 Indian accounts were banned on WhatsApp. It identifies Indian accounts via the 91 phone number.

Why WhatsApp banned these Indian accounts

WhatsApp has stated earlier that more than 95 per cent of bans are due to the unauthorised use of automated or bulk messaging (spam). The global average number of accounts that WhatsApp bans to prevent abuse on its platform is around 8 million accounts per month.