{"id":955714,"date":"2025-08-18T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955714"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:31:16","slug":"explained-which-countries-have-blocked-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/18\/explained-which-countries-have-blocked-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained | Which countries have blocked WhatsApp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm: Russia on Wednesday became the latest country to restrict some WhatsApp calls, accusing the Meta-owned platform of failing to share information in fraud and terrorism cases. <\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of nations restricting WhatsApp: <\/p>\n<p>FULLY BLOCKED <\/p>\n<p>China started blocking WhatsApp in 2017, using its so-called Great Firewall to filter and block traffic with overseas servers. Chinese users rely on an alternative called WeChat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockholm: Russia on Wednesday became the latest country to restrict some WhatsApp calls, accusing the Meta-owned platform of failing to share information in fraud and terrorism cases. Here is a list of nations restricting WhatsApp: FULLY BLOCKED China started blocking WhatsApp in 2017, using its so-called Great Firewall to filter and block traffic with overseas servers. Chinese users rely on an alternative called WeChat.<\/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":[20,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-telecom-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955714","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=955714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}