WhatsApp banned over 1.9 million Indian accounts in May 2022, here’s why

In its lat­est report, What­sApp said that its abuse detec­tion oper­ates at three stages of an account’s lifestyle – at reg­is­tra­tion, dur­ing mes­sag­ing, and in response to neg­a­tive feed­back. The lat­ter comes in the form of user reports and blocks. What­sApp has a team of ana­lysts that inspect these three stages to help improve effec­tive­ness over time. 

Of course, banned accounts have the right to make an appeal but What­sApp rarely over­turns them. Out of 303 appeals in the month of May only 23 accounts were restored, accord­ing to the lat­est report.

“Over the years, we have con­sis­tent­ly invest­ed in Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and oth­er state-of-the-art tech­nol­o­gy, data sci­en­tists and experts, and in process­es, in order to keep our users safe on our plat­form. In accor­dance with the IT Rules 2021, we’ve pub­lished our report for the month of May 2022. This user-safe­ty report con­tains details of the user com­plaints received and the cor­re­spond­ing action was tak­en by What­sApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own pre­ven­tive actions to com­bat abuse on our plat­form,” said a What­sApp spokesperson.