As part of new rules governing social media in India, WhatsApp has filed its 1st compliance report which said 2 million accounts were blocked. Of these, over 95% accounts were blocked between May 15 & June 15 because of unauthorized use of automated or bulk messaging.
WhatsApp blocks 2 million Indian accounts in battle against spam messages – cnn.com
New Delhi (CNN Business)WhatsApp blocked2million accounts of Indian users in a month to prevent harmful behavior, the company said in its first ever compliance report published under the country’s strict new information technology rules. Under the new rules, which came into effect in May, social media companies have to publish a compliance report every month detailing how many complaints they received from Indian users and what action they took.
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