Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeWhatsApp has blocked more than two million users in India for breaking a little-known rule intended to stop the spread of hoaxes and fake news. Over the course of just one month - between 15 May and 15 June - the messaging app, which has around two billion users, purged the accounts that had violated the rule. The company said it targeted users who were sending a “high and abnormal rate of messages”, the Express reports. India is WhatsApp’s biggest market with more than 400 million users. WhatsApp said it uses AI technology to block around eight million accounts around the world, every month.

Source: Daily Mirror July 18, 2021 21:33 UTC