{"id":991814,"date":"2026-02-13T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991814"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:21:08","slug":"russia-blocks-meta-owned-whatsapp-for-defying-local-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/russia-blocks-meta-owned-whatsapp-for-defying-local-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks Meta-owned WhatsApp for defying local laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has blocked messaging platform WhatsApp for allegedly violating domestic laws, the Kremlin confirmed to news agency AFP on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a decision was indeed made and implemented,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about the reported ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has blocked messaging platform WhatsApp for allegedly violating domestic laws, the Kremlin confirmed to news agency AFP on Thursday. &#8220;Such a decision was indeed made and implemented,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about the reported ban.<\/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-991814","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\/991814","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=991814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}