WhatsApp banned over 47 lakh Indian accounts in March

About 4.7 million WhatsApp accounts were banned in the month of March and 1.7 million of those accounts were proactively banned before any reports from users’ side, the instant messaging platform said in its monthly report.

In February, it banned about 4.6 million Indian accounts.

An Indian account is identified via a +91 phone number.

“Between 1 Mar, 2023 and 31 Mar 2023, 4,715,906 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 1,659,385 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users,” the report titled India Monthly Report under the Information Technology said on Monday.