{"id":991807,"date":"2026-02-13T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991807"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:59:17","slug":"russia-confirms-whatsapp-ban-says-citizens-can-use-facebook-and-instagram-too-erased-get-designated-as-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/russia-confirms-whatsapp-ban-says-citizens-can-use-facebook-and-instagram-too-erased-get-designated-as-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia confirms WhatsApp ban, says citizens can use &#8230;; Facebook and Instagram too erased, get designated as &#8220;extremist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has confirmed ban on Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp. Russia said that it has blocked the messaging service WhatsApp over its failure to comply with local legislation. Kremlin urged WhatsApp&#8217;s 100 million Russian users to switch to a domestic alternative. &#8220;As for the blocking of WhatsApp&#8230; such a decision was indeed made and implemented,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov said the decision was due to WhatsApp&#8217;s &#8220;reluctance to comply with the norms and letter of Russian law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The government has asked citizens to use country&#8217;s own Max app, calling it a good alternative. &#8220;Max is an accessible alternative, a developing messenger, a national messenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has confirmed ban on Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp. Russia said that it has blocked the messaging service WhatsApp over its failure to comply with local legislation. Kremlin urged WhatsApp&#8217;s 100 million Russian users to switch to a domestic alternative. &#8220;As for the blocking of WhatsApp&#8230; such a decision was indeed made and implemented,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov said the decision was due to WhatsApp&#8217;s &#8220;reluctance to comply with the norms and letter of Russian law&#8221;. The government has asked citizens to use country&#8217;s own Max app, calling it a good alternative. &#8220;Max is an accessible alternative, a developing [&hellip;]<\/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-991807","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\/991807","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=991807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}