{"id":979020,"date":"2025-12-08T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979020"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:58:25","slug":"after-whatsapp-and-apple-facetime-russia-bans-snapchat-government-says-app-being-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/08\/after-whatsapp-and-apple-facetime-russia-bans-snapchat-government-says-app-being-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"After WhatsApp and Apple FaceTime, Russia bans Snapchat; government says: App being used to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s state internet regulator Roskomnadzor announced that it has blocked Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple&#8217;s FaceTime video calling service, accusing both platforms of facilitating terrorist activities and criminal operations within the country.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog claimed the messaging app was being used &#8220;to organize and conduct terrorist activities in the country, recruit perpetrators, and commit fraud and other crimes against our citizens,&#8221; according to state media reports. While the announcement came this week, Roskomnadzor said it had already made Snapchat unavailable in Russia since October 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s state internet regulator Roskomnadzor announced that it has blocked Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple&#8217;s FaceTime video calling service, accusing both platforms of facilitating terrorist activities and criminal operations within the country. The watchdog claimed the messaging app was being used &#8220;to organize and conduct terrorist activities in the country, recruit perpetrators, and commit fraud and other crimes against our citizens,&#8221; according to state media reports. While the announcement came this week, Roskomnadzor said it had already made Snapchat unavailable in Russia since October 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979020","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}