{"id":991816,"date":"2026-02-13T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991816"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:22:22","slug":"trying-to-isolate-over-100-million-users-russia-blocks-whatsapp-will-the-ban-be-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/trying-to-isolate-over-100-million-users-russia-blocks-whatsapp-will-the-ban-be-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Trying to isolate over 100 million users&#8217;: Russia blocks WhatsApp \u2014 will the ban be reversed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia on Tuesday attempted to block social media platform WhatsApp and Telegram to promote its home-grown platforms and seek greater control over its internet space.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, WhatsApp said that the move will isolate over 100 million users, claiming that the step can &#8220;only lead to less safety for people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia on Tuesday attempted to block social media platform WhatsApp and Telegram to promote its home-grown platforms and seek greater control over its internet space. In a statement, WhatsApp said that the move will isolate over 100 million users, claiming that the step can &#8220;only lead to less safety for people.&#8221;<\/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-991816","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\/991816","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=991816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}