WhatsApp blocking 2 million accounts every month for sending bulk messages
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is removing at least two million accounts each month for bulk or automated behaviour and over 75 per cent of those without recent user reports. According to the company, these efforts are particularly important during elections where certain groups may attempt to send messages at scale. "While there are many actors trying to abuse the free service we provide, we are constantly advancing our anti-abuse operations to keep the platform safe," WhatsApp said in a statement on Thursday. WhatsApp is banning accounts that send a high volume of messages. "We're able to detect and ban many accounts before they register a" preventing them from sending a single message. Roughly 20 per cent of account bans happened at registration time," the company informed. WhatsApp which has over 200 million users in India aims to understand the behavioural cues indicating bulk registrations. "For example, our systems can detect if a s...