WhatsApp has blocked more than 2 million users in India for breaking a little-known rule, applied for the first time. With an announcement in April 2020, the platform had limited the sharing of an identical message to multiple people, via the forwarding function. Despite this, millions of users in India have created sub accounts over time to increase the virality of messages. The limit was designed to combat spam and the spread of rumors, photos and hoaxes in the country. A big problem for a nation where many people rely on the chat app to keep up to date with news events, including the trend of Covid-19. The company said the move only affects those who have sent unverified news as well as photos and videos with a “high and abnormal message rate”. The local site Express reports it. Over 95% of the bans were related to “unauthorized use of automated or mass messages”.
India is the largest market for WhatsApp, with over 400 million subscribers. According to when he pointed out the client owned by Facebook, the algorithm of Artificial Intelligence came into play to identify spam accounts, able to analyze user behavior without reading the content of conversations, always protected by end-to-end encryption. end. Each month, WhatsApp recognizes and blocks an average of eight million fake accounts worldwide, part of the more than 2 billion currently active.
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