WhatsApp banned over 2.2 million Indian accounts in September

New Delhi: WhatsApp banned 2,209,000 Indian accounts and received 560 grievance reports in September, according to its compliance report released on Monday.

“Over the years, we have consistently invested in AI and other state-of-the -art technology, data scientists and experts, and in processes, in order to keep our users safe on our platform,” a WhatsApp spokesperson stated. “This user-safety report contains details of user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform.”

Previously, the Facebook-owned company had stated that more than 95% of the ban was due to the unauthorised use of automated or bulk messaging (spam).