WhatsApp blocks 2 million India users over ‘spam message abuses’

Company makes the disclosure while filing first compliance report under India’s controversial new social media rules.

WhatsApp has blocked more than two million users in India in just a month for violating its rules, the United States-based company has disclosed in its first compliance report under India’s controversial new social media rules. Most of the users were blocked for what the company called spam message abuses. The Facebook-owned firm has put a limit on mass forward messaging in a bid to counter misinformation.