WhatsApp bans 2.2 mn India accounts in June after abuse complaints

WhatsApp banned more than 2.2 million Indian accounts in June after users reported abusive content, said on Tuesday the messaging platform owned by Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc.

WhatsApp has to publish a monthly report to follow India’s Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. It banned more than 1.9 million accounts in May and over 1.6 million in April. According to market data firm Statista, there are more than 487 million WhatsApp users in India.

“We are particularly focused on prevention because we believe it is much better to stop harmful activity from happening in the first place than to detect it after harm has occurred,” WhatsApp said in the report.