{"id":991658,"date":"2026-02-12T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991658"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:49:41","slug":"whatsapp-ban-in-russia-heres-why-messaging-app-has-been-fully-blocked-by-moscow-and-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/whatsapp-ban-in-russia-heres-why-messaging-app-has-been-fully-blocked-by-moscow-and-what-happens-next\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp ban in Russia: Here&#8217;s why messaging app has been \u2018fully blocked&#8217; by Moscow and what happens next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp on 11 February said the Russian government has moved to \u201cfully block\u201d its services in the country, in order to promote a state-sponsored \u201csuper\u201d app called Max, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Financial Times, millions of people were \u201cabruptly cut off from WhatsApp\u201d. The Meta Platforms-owned messaging app said it is doing everything to keep over 100 million users connected, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp on 11 February said the Russian government has moved to \u201cfully block\u201d its services in the country, in order to promote a state-sponsored \u201csuper\u201d app called Max, Bloomberg reported. According to The Financial Times, millions of people were \u201cabruptly cut off from WhatsApp\u201d. The Meta Platforms-owned messaging app said it is doing everything to keep over 100 million users connected, the report added.<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991658","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=991658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}