WhatsApp has banned more than 29 lakh accounts in India in the month of January in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The figure is however drastically lower than 36.77 lakh accounts it blocked in the country in December last year.
Between January 1 and January 31, "2,918,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned. 1,038,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users," the company said in its monthly compliance report.
The Meta-owned popular messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users in the country, received 1,461 complaint reports in January in the country, and the records "actioned" were 195.
"This report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp's own preventive actions to combat abuse on our platform," said a company spokesperson.
Meanwhile, in a bid to empower millions of Indian social media users, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Tuesday launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) that will look into their concerns regarding content and other issues. The newly-formed panel is seen as a move to strengthen the country's digital laws and will look into appeals by users against decisions of social media platforms.
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