WhatsApp has banned as many as 2 million accounts from India, the messaging app recently said. As soon as the news broke, #WhatsApp started trending on Twitter, with users sharing quirky memes depicting the situation.

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On Thursday, WhatsApp released its first monthly report in compliance with the new Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code, commonly known as the IT rules, 2021. The messaging app said that 95% of the accounts suspended had made “unauthorized use of automated or bulk messaging”.

Through memes, several social media users took a jibe at those who love forwarding bulk greetings messages or unverified news on WhatsApp. While some memes depicted the feelings of those whose accounts weren’t suspended, others were a funny take on those migrating to other platforms.

Have a look at some of the memes:

With about 400 million users, India is WhatsApp’s biggest market. It is followed by Brazil, United States, Indonesia and Russia.

Meanwhile, social media company Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, said in its monthly report that it received 646 reports through the various grievance mechanisms and that it responded to all the complaints.

The Centre’s new IT rules that were introduced in February this year became applicable from May onwards. Applicable on all social media platforms operating in India, these rules require platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to release monthly compliance reports for Indian users.

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The other provisions of the IT rules include appointing a resident grievance officer as part of a larger grievance redressal mechanism, active monitoring of content on the platform, self-regulation mechanisms, among others.