WhatsApp continues to ban accounts in India, over 16 lakh accounts were banned in April

FP StaffJun 02, 2022 10:07:58 ISTAccording to WhatsApp’s monthly disclosure resort, the messaging platform owned by Meta,  has banned over 16.7 lakh accounts in India in the month of April. Out of these, 122 accounts were banned because of mandatory actions based on user complaints while a bulk of them, about 16.66 lakh accounts, were barred to prevent harmful activity on the app. “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 monthly report stated. According to the WhatsApp framework, the app bans an account when it is confident that the user operating the account is abusive on the platform. “Our goal is to identify and stop abusive accounts as quickly as possible, which is why identifying these accounts manually is not realistic. Instead, we have advanced machine learning systems that take action to ban accounts, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” the report said. The company said it bans the account in several cases, including when an account accumulates negative feedback, such as when other users submit reports or block the account. The report also said…
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