Whatsapp is ubiquitous if not the default messaging app for most people across the smartphone world. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be counting over 2 Billion users across the globe.
However, with this gargantuan userbase comes suspicious activity especially in unified spaces like groups. This has apparently prompted the green messenger to set up measures that will ensure that such cases are not tolerated on the platform.
This is What Can Get Your Whatsapp Group Banned
- If it has an illegal name or description. However, this is relative and will most likely vary from country to country.
- If the group has been reported by multiple users. Of course, this would cause a red flag otherwise, why would multiple users report a single group if all was sailing smoothly?
What Happens Once a Group is Banned?
If your group is banned, you won’t be able to send messages, review the chat history, or see the participants list according to WABetaInfo.
However, it warns that Whatsapp itself won’t be able to read group conversations since the service is end-to-end encrypted. The moderation team will instead use an algorithm to determine whether the group should be banned or not based on user reports.
Admins of the banned groups also risking being banned from using the Whatsapp service itself.
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- WhatsApp starts rolling out extra security to your backups
- WhatsApp wants to make your search for local businesses way easier
- WhatsApp to allow banned users submit appeals in-app
How to Recover Your Group in case it Gets Banned
Users can ask Whatsapp to repel the decision through support within the banned group so that users can submit a request to have it restored.
