{"id":169998,"date":"2025-02-28T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169998"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:24:02","slug":"whatsapp-closed-8-4m-indian-accounts-in-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/28\/whatsapp-closed-8-4m-indian-accounts-in-one-month.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp closed 8.4m Indian accounts in one month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169999\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"162\" \/>Islamabad: WhatsApp, the most used messaging platform worldwide, has suspended more than 8.4 million (8.4 million) Indian WhatsApp accounts in one month.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said this action has been taken by WhatsApp&#8217;s parent company Meta in view of fraudulent activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, in August 2024, WhatsApp received complaints from 10,707 users, out of which 93 percent of the complaints were immediately taken action.<\/p>\n<p>Meta has suspended about 8.45 million WhatsApp accounts in India under the Information Technology Act.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, WhatsApp has stated that the account ban was implemented after receiving reports of fraud and suspicious activities from users, while the purpose of banning accounts is to strengthen the integrity of the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total accounts blocked under this ban, 1.66 million users were immediately blocked due to serious violations, while the remaining accounts were blocked after being deemed suspicious after investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: WhatsApp, the most used messaging platform worldwide, has suspended more than 8.4 million (8.4 million) Indian WhatsApp accounts in one month. According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said this action has been taken by WhatsApp&#8217;s parent company Meta in view of fraudulent activities. According to media reports, in August 2024, WhatsApp received complaints from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/a.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170000,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169998\/revisions\/170000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}