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The country's largest social media platform WhatsApp has banned about 84 lakh accounts in the country. WhatsApp's parent company Meta has taken this action in just one month. The company says that its platform was being used for scams, so the company has banned these suspicious accounts. Many users had informed WhatsApp about such scams and complained about it on its platform.

In the transparency report released by the company, it was told that Meta has banned about 8,458,000 WhatsApp accounts for the safety of the users. This action has been taken to comply with sections 4(1)(d) and 3A(7) of the Information Technology Act. After receiving continuous complaints, WhatsApp had increased monitoring and the company banned the accounts that were found suspicious.

Action taken in one month
The company's report shows that Meta banned all these accounts between 1 and 31 August. Out of this, 16.61 lakh accounts were closed immediately, while the rest were banned after being found suspicious after investigation. The company closed more than 16 lakh accounts without any complaint from the user because their misuse came to the fore during monitoring.

The company received more than 10 thousand complaints
The report states that the company has received 10,707 complaints from the users in August 2024. Out of this, the company took strict action against 93. Apart from this, complaints received through email and other means were also thoroughly investigated. The company says that most of these accounts were related to scams and exploitation.

Account gets banned due to these reasons.
If a user sends too many bulk messages or uses them for spam for fraud sharing wrong information or spreading rumors, then his account gets banned.
If a user violates Indian law and uses WhatsApp for suspicious activities, then his account will also get banned.
If a person complains against a user on WhatsApp or tries to exploit him, then after an investigation, the account of such a user will get banned.