Key Points
WhatsApp's most recent monthly report for India discloses that it took action against 7.11 million accounts in September, in compliance with the IT regulations..
Among these accounts, 2.57 million were proactively banned, without receiving any user reports...
The report outlines the actions taken by WhatsApp in response to concerns raised by Indian users, account violations within India, and directives from the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC)..
This action was taken following the receipt of 10,442 user reports across various categories in September, including account support (1,031), ban appeals (7,396), other support categories (1,518), product support (370), and safety (127)..
The report explains that safety concerns involve potential abuse or harmful behavior on the platform, and WhatsApp addresses or takes action against all received grievances unless they are duplicates of previous complaints...
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