{"id":991764,"date":"2026-02-13T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991764"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:26:04","slug":"whatsapp-raps-russias-ban-on-messaging-app-calls-it-backwards-step-to-isolate-100-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/whatsapp-raps-russias-ban-on-messaging-app-calls-it-backwards-step-to-isolate-100-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp raps Russia&#8217;s ban on messaging app, calls it \u2018backwards step&#8217; to \u2018isolate 100 million users&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp criticised Russia&#8217;s decision to ban the messaging app, saying the move would cut over 100 million users from \u201cprivate and secure\u201d communication, and could also lead to \u201cless safety\u201d for people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Russia on Thursday announced that it is blocking foreign social media platform WhatsApp, and plans to restrict Telegram as well, in order to promote its homegrown \u201csuper-app\u201d called Max, which is modelled after China\u2019s WeChat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp criticised Russia&#8217;s decision to ban the messaging app, saying the move would cut over 100 million users from \u201cprivate and secure\u201d communication, and could also lead to \u201cless safety\u201d for people in the country. Russia on Thursday announced that it is blocking foreign social media platform WhatsApp, and plans to restrict Telegram as well, in order to promote its homegrown \u201csuper-app\u201d called Max, which is modelled after China\u2019s WeChat.<\/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-991764","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\/991764","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=991764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}