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WhatsApp banned over 2.2 million Indian accounts in September: Report

More than 2.2 million Indian accounts were banned by WhatsApp while 560 grievance reports were received by the messaging platform in September, according to its compliance report. In its latest report released on Monday, WhatsApp said 2,209,000 Indian accounts on the platform were banned in September. An Indian account is identified via a '+91' phone number, it added. "WhatsApp is an industry leader in preventing abuse, among end-to-end encrypted messaging services. Over the years, we have consistently invested in Artificial Intelligence and other state of the art technology, data scientists and experts, and in processes, in order to keep our users safe on our platform," a WhatsApp spokesperson said. In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, WhatsApp has published its fourth monthly report for the 30-day period of September 1-30. "This user-safety report contains details of the user complaints received and the corresponding action taken by WhatsApp as well as WhatsApp's own preventive

Facebook parent to be called Meta, firm betting big on virtual experiences

The individual apps - Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will continue to be known as they are

Users can now transfer WhatsApp chats from iOS to Pixel, Android 12 phones

Recently, WhatsApp also started rolling out end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android users globally.

WhatsApp may soon ask users to verify identity to make payments

Currently, when users set up WhatsApp Pay in India, the service only verifies the phone number linked to your bank account to enable UPI-based transactions

Alternate reality? Facebook plans to launch massive rebranding exercise

Under fire for its business practices and handling of hate speech, Facebook is planning to rebrand itself. The question is whether this can salvage its image

WhatsApp doesn't have fundamental rights, can't challenge Indian law: Govt

WhatsApp has said earlier that it will not break its end-to-end encryption as that would undermine the privacy of users

WhatsApp expands joinable call feature to group chats: Check details here

Users can call a WhatsApp group and join the call directly from the group chat

WhatsApp for iOS working on message reaction feature with new settings

WhatsApp has been working on new reaction features as the new beta version of the platform brings the ability to manage reaction notifications with new settings

WhatsApp to begin rolling out end-to-end encrypted chat backups

With this update, if you choose to back up your chat history with end-to-end encryption, it will be accessible only to yoy; no one will be able to unlock the backup, not even WhatsApp

Whatsapp will soon provide encrypted chat backups for Android, iOS users

Last month, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg had taken to social media to announce that WhatsApp will be adding another layer of privacy and security which would be rolling out soon.

How dependent are Indian businesses on Facebook and WhatsApp?

There was a massive disruption in Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram services recently. What was the impact of Facebook, Whatsapp outage on Indian businesses? Let's find out

Second coming of social media has a business peg: Facebook India head

According to data shared by the company for the first time, 416 million users in India access Facebook every month, out of which 234 million access it every day

TMS, Ep 15: Business impact of Facebook outage, Subbarao on economy, & IPOs

How deep is Indian businesses' dependence on Facebook and WhatsApp? What does RBI ex-governor Subbarao think of $5-trn economy goal? What are markets expecting from the RBI policy? All answers here

Snapchat was the biggest winner the day Facebook's services went down

Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilizing a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition

'Buck stops with Mark': Whistleblower blasts Facebook 'metrics-led culture'

"Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy," the whistleblower said

Millions of users flock to Signal and Telegram after Facebook outage

Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday, it said on Twitter

Here's what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps

"This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," the company's engineering team wrote in a blog post Monday night

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Facebook apologises for outage, says services 'back up and running'

All of Facebook's services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were down for users globally beginning Monday night.

WhatsApp adds rupee symbol to chats for faster access to payment capability

Says camera icon in chat composer now lets users scan any QR code to enable paying at over 20 mn stores in India