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Like other social media platforms, WhatsApp releases its monthly report detailing the action it took keeping in mind the safety of users.

Like other social media platforms, WhatsApp releases its monthly report on the first day of every month detailing the action it took on various accounts after complaints by the users. Talking about tackling abuse on WhatsApp, the Meta-owned messaging platform said it also deploys tools and resources to prevent harmful behaviour. Like other social media platforms, WhatsApp releases its monthly report detailing the action it took keeping in mind the safety of users.

New IT rules, which came into effect in 2021, mandated large digital platforms (with over 50 lakh users) to publish compliance reports every month, ...

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WhatsApp banned 2685000 bad accounts between 1st September 2022 and 30th September 2022, 872000 of these accounts were proactively banned, ...

[India](/topic/india), and the platform actioned 23 of the reports. [Meta](/topic/meta)'s global instant messaging platform - Whatsapp on Saturday published its [monthly report](/topic/monthly-report)for the month of September 2022. [IT Rules 2021](/topic/it-rules-2021), we’ve published our report for the month of September 2022.

Currently, social media intermediaries are only required to inform users about not uploading certain categories of harmful/unlawful content.

"In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we've published our report for the month of September 2022. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, major digital and social media platforms, with in excess of five million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports. [India](/topic/india) in the month of September in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, which are now being amended to put more responsibilities on social media platforms. The messaging platform, which has nearly 500 million users (according to third-party data) in the country, received 666 complaint reports in September in India, and the records "actioned" were 23. [WhatsApp hacked?

The number of accounts blocked in September were 15 per cent more than the 23.28 lakh accounts the messaging platform banned in August.

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 company said. Big social media firms have drawn flak in the past over hate speech, misinformation and fake news circulating on their platforms. “Between 1 September, 2022 and 30 September, 2022, 2,685,000 WhatsApp accounts were banned.

According to the latest WhatsApp report, the platform received 666 grievances in September but took action only against 23.

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 company said. Big social media firms have drawn flak in the past over hate speech, misinformation and fake news circulating on their platforms. 872,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users.

8.72 lakh WhatsApp accounts were proactively banned before any reports from users, , whatsapp, account suspension.

The number of accounts blocked in September was 15 per cent more than the 23.28 lakh accounts the messaging platform banned in August. "Between 1 September, ...

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 company said. Big social media firms have drawn flak in the past over hate speech, misinformation and fake news circulating on their platforms. 872,000 of these accounts were proactively banned, before any reports from users.

The platform banned over 23 lakh bad accounts in India in August. Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, major digital and social media platforms, with in excess ...

Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, major digital and social media platforms, with in excess of five million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports. "In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we`ve published our report for the month of September 2022. Meta-owned WhatsApp on Tuesday said it banned over 26 lakh accounts in India in the month of September in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021, which are now being amended to put more responsibilities on social media platforms.

WhatsApp banned more than 2.6 Mn accounts in September 2022, revealed the latest compliance report published by the Meta-owned platform.

Prior to that, the Supreme Court also, more or less, greenlighted the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) [probe](https://inc42.com/buzz/big-blow-to-meta-sc-green-lights-ccis-probe-into-whatsapp/) into its contentious 2021 privacy policy update. WhatsApp’s abuse detection process operates at three levels – registration, during messaging, and in response to negative feedback. [submitted a report to the government](https://inc42.com/buzz/meta-submits-whatsapp-outage-report-to-it-ministry/) in the matter, it publicly cited a ‘technical glitch’ as the reason behind the outage. WhatsApp took remedial actions that included either banning the account or restoring a previously banned account. “…WhatsApp also deploys tools and resources to prevent harmful behavior on the platform. [33.78 Mn content pieces](https://inc42.com/buzz/meta-cracks-the-whip-on-spam-nudity-actions-33-78-mn-content-pieces-in-sep/) in September.

WhatsApp's monthly report for September 2022, issued in compliance with the new IT rules, has revealed that it banned around 26 lakh accounts in India in ...

In total, it banned 2,685,000 Indian accounts between September 1 - September 30. In the latest report, WhatsApp mentioned that the platform takes the users security and privacy as priority. "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. Notably, you have to share the screenshot as proof of your reason for reporting to user. The total number of accounts banned in September is around 3 lakh more compared to that reported for the month of July. The September User Safety Monthly Report reveals around 8 lakh accounts were proactively banned before getting any reports from the users.

According to the platform, they block accounts if they think the activity on the account violates the Terms of Service, such as if it involves spam or scams or ...

Moreover, the platform is now focusing on both application and web usage. We are especially focused on prevention because we believe that it is far preferable to prevent harmful activity from occurring in the first place than to detect it after harm has occurred, " said the company. It also includes not using the app for a long time, creating too many groups, bulk messaging to third parties, spreading fake news, suspicious actions, or being reported multiple times.

Instant messaging service WhatsApp banned 26.85 lakh accounts in India in September. Read on to know more.

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