WhatsApp bans over 20 lakh Indian accounts: Here's all you need to know

WhatsApp Update: Facebook-owned WhatsApp, one of the most popular messaging applications, released its September monthly report under the Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules, 2021. As per the reports, over 2 million WhatsApp accounts have been banned in India between September 1 and September 20, 2021.

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“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,” the report stated.

“The abuse detection operates at three stages of an account’s lifestyle: at registration, during messaging, and in response to negative feedback, which we receive in the form of user reports and blocks," the messaging application further added.

“A team of analysts augments these systems to evaluate edge cases and help improve our effectiveness over time. We have detailed our on-platform capabilities to identify and ban accounts in this white paper,” WhatsApp said.

Using these tools WhatsApp identified accounts that go against the platform’s guidelines and protocols. Such accounts have been banned and users will no longer be able to use the platform using their existing mobile number.

To create a new WhatsApp account, the said user will need to get a new phone number and then create a new account. However, it should be noted that if the same activity is repeated, the platform will ban the account again.

Over the past few months, the WhatsApp is working hardware to build a robust platform keeping in mind safety and security of users.

Meanwhile, Google announced that Facebook-owned instant messaging applications WhatsApp's chat history migration feature to transfer messages from iPhones to Android is now coming to Pixel and all other Android 12 smartphones.

This feature is already available on Samsung Galaxy devices but unlike with Samsung phones, where the feature is available on devices running Android 10 and above, here it is limited to phones with Android 12.