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Communications service WhatsApp released a report showing that 2.39 million accounts were suspended in India in July. The data is disclosed in accordance with India's strict IT laws, which require digital platforms to publish this data every month.
The important thing is that of all the blocked accounts, 1.42 million were proactively sent to oblivion – before users complained. WhatsApp says that in addition to handling complaints, it is taking its own steps to identify "malicious behavior" on the platform - the company is focused on preventing incidents before things get out of hand.
“First, we believe that it is much better to prevent malicious activity before the event itself than to detect it after the damage has already been done,” says the courier team. How the potential maliciousness of messages protected by end-to-end encryption is detected is not specified.
In addition to proactive blocking, WhatsApp has traditionally allowed you to complain about users. In this case, moderators get the content of the last messages sent by the offender to the user or group, as well as some information about the recent contacts of the whistleblowers and the user against whom the report was made.
Users and security experts often criticize the WhatsApp messenger, calling it a vehicle for spreading fake news and misinformation. However, this is not surprising - today it is the most popular messenger on the planet, used by over 2 billion people, so the number of attackers on the platform can be expected to be quite high.
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