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title: "2.4 Million Indian WhatsApp Accounts were Banned in July"  
description: "WhatsApp had prohibited 2.39 million Indian accounts in the month of July. Well, it was the highest till date this year."  
author: "Siddhi Shaw"  
published: 2022-09-02  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1954/2-4-million-indian-whatsapp-accounts-were-banned-in-july  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["whatsapp", "technology", "india"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# 2.4 Million Indian WhatsApp Accounts were Banned in July

**WhatsApp** had prohibited **2.39 million** Indian accounts in the month of **July**. Well, it was the highest till date this year, the **Meta** owned popular [instant messaging](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167313/importance-of-instant-messaging-for-business-collaboration) app has mentioned about the information on late **Thursday** in its monthly report.

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HIGHLIGHTS2.39 million Indian WhatsApp accounts were banned in the month of JulyAsian nation's strict IT laws have made it important for large digital platforms The messaging platform was criticised for spreading fake news and hate speech
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The Asian nation's strict **IT laws** have made it important for large [digital platforms](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/115429/how-have-digital-platforms-transformed-the-reach-and-success-of-indian-movies-worldwide) in order to publish compliance reports each month.

Certain draft rules were circulated in the month of **June** which proposed [setting up](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13112/setting-up-the-perfect-configuration-for-your-work-computer) a panel in order to listen to user appeals. It has mentioned that the important social media messaging platforms should permit [identification](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12871/technology-every-educational-institute-retail-store-needs-radio-frequency-identification) of the first originator of the information, if it was directed by courts to do so.

Around **1.42 million** were '**proactively prohibited**,' before any reports were issued from the users.

Most number of accounts were prohibited on the basis of complaints which had received through the company's [grievances](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2243/the-government-modifies-its-it-regulations-to-create-panels-that-handle-social-media-grievances) channel and the tools and resources that was used to notice such offenses, [as mentioned](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/38307/bring-out-the-significance-of-the-terms-sovereign-democratic-republic-as-mentioned-in-the-preamble) by the [social media platform](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1517/is-elon-musk-launching-his-own-social-media-platform). In **July**, [WhatsApp](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1918/beta-users-would-finally-be-getting-whatsapp-communities-feature) had received a total of **574 grievance** reports.

The messaging platform, that has been criticized earlier for spreading fake news and hate speech within the country. Along with this, **2.21 million** accounts were taken down in India in the month of **June**.

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