{"id":1012592,"date":"2026-06-06T08:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012592"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:43:22","slug":"apple-removes-russias-state-backed-messenger-from-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/apple-removes-russias-state-backed-messenger-from-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple removes Russia&#8217;s state-backed messenger from App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has removed Russia&#8217;s state-backed Max messenger from its App Store, the app&#8217;s Russian developers said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Moscow has for months been pushing Russians to install Max &#8212; a super-app that lacks encryption and that critics say could be used to track people. <\/p>\n<p>It has throttled WhatsApp and Telegram, the country&#8217;s two largest messengers, and forced civil servants, state companies, schools and government agencies to move their communications onto Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has removed Russia&#8217;s state-backed Max messenger from its App Store, the app&#8217;s Russian developers said Thursday. Moscow has for months been pushing Russians to install Max &#8212; a super-app that lacks encryption and that critics say could be used to track people. It has throttled WhatsApp and Telegram, the country&#8217;s two largest messengers, and forced civil servants, state companies, schools and government agencies to move their communications onto Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012603,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012592\/revisions\/1012603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}