WhatsApp Account Ban: WhatsApp has banned many accounts in India. According to the IANS report, WhatsApp informed on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, that 9.7 million accounts of India have been banned in February 2025. Giving the reason for this decision, the company said that those accounts have been closed in India were violating the rules of using WhatsApp.

Why did WhatsApp ban the accounts?

According to WhatsApp's February 2025 safety report, the company has banned more than 1.4 million such accounts, about which no user had even filed a complaint. Let us tell you that WhatsApp has more than 500 million users in India. The company said that these 9.7 million accounts in India could be banned due to investments in AI-driven moderation and advanced reporting tools.

Giving information on behalf of WhatsApp, a spokesperson said that WhatsApp has been working continuously on artificial intelligence for many years. Along with this, our data scientists and experts are constantly trying to provide complete safety to all the users on our platform. WhatsApp has taken this action to stop the wrong things, which were playing with the security of the people.

Big action by WhatsApp

WhatsApp further said that according to IT Rules 2021, the company has taken action against most of those accounts, which were reported by the users themselves. The company also said that WhatsApp has an automated detection system that detects suspicious activities.

Most of the complaints received by WhatsApp are related to spamming and third-party apps. Apart from this, people have also reported some cases in that they are added to various groups without their permission. WhatsApp has investigated all these complaints and banned the accounts doing such wrong things.