WhatsApp Says that It Banned Over 2 Million Accounts in One Month to Prevent Harmful Behaviour WhatsApp says that it banned 20 lakh accounts between May 15 and June 15, 2021, to try and prevent harmful behavior. In its first transparency report, published under the new Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, the company revealed that it had banned 20,11,000 accounts in this one-month period. The Facebook-owned messaging platform identifies Indian accounts through the +91 country code of the mobile number used to register. It also added that India alone accounts for 25 percent of all the accounts banned in the world. WhatsApp published the first edition of its intermediary guidelines report on Thursday, and in this, the company highlighted its own actions to prevent harmful behavior. "Our top focus is preventing accounts from sending harmful or unwanted messages at scale," WhatsApp said in its report that it ...
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