{"id":991795,"date":"2026-02-13T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991795"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:52:52","slug":"meta-owned-whatsapp-says-today-the-russian-government-attempted-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/meta-owned-whatsapp-says-today-the-russian-government-attempted-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-owned WhatsApp says \u2018Today the Russian government attempted to \u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has claimed that Russia has \u201cattempted to fully block\u201d the messaging platform. Sharing a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), WhatsApp alleged that the country is trying to \u201cisolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication\u201d. This comes amidst the ongoing tensions with foreign tech companies after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, per a Reuters report. Since then, Russian authorities have promoted a state-backed app called \u201cMAX\u201d as an alternative to foreign services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has claimed that Russia has \u201cattempted to fully block\u201d the messaging platform. Sharing a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), WhatsApp alleged that the country is trying to \u201cisolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication\u201d. This comes amidst the ongoing tensions with foreign tech companies after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, per a Reuters report. Since then, Russian authorities have promoted a state-backed app called \u201cMAX\u201d as an alternative to foreign services. \u201cToday the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app.<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991795","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=991795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}