NEW DELHI:
Meta-owned WhatsApp on Wednesday said it had suspended more than 36 million of his ‘bad’ accounts in India in December 2022, following amended new IT Regulations 2021 to give social media platforms more blame-shifting. Announced.
According to the company, between December 1 and his December 31, he had 3,677,000 WhatsApp accounts suspended, of which 1,389,000 were suspended before users reported them. rice field.
His messaging platform, which has more than 400 million users in the country, said he received 1,607 complaint reports across the country in December, with 166 records handled over.
“Pursuant to IT Rules 2021, we have published a report for December 2022. As noted in our latest monthly report, WhatsApp suspended over 3.6 million of his accounts in December,” it said. He said a spokesperson for WhatsApp. According to the updated IT Regulations 2021, large digital and social media platforms with more than 5 million users are required to publish monthly compliance reports.
Meanwhile, in a major push towards an open, secure, trustworthy and accountable Internet, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has announced several changes aimed at protecting the rights of the ‘Digital Nagrik’. bottom.
This change imposes a legal obligation on intermediaries to use reasonable efforts to prevent users from uploading such content.
