{"id":991835,"date":"2026-02-13T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991835"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:52:21","slug":"surveillance-tool-or-accessible-messenger-all-we-know-about-max-russias-alternative-after-whatsapp-fully-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/13\/surveillance-tool-or-accessible-messenger-all-we-know-about-max-russias-alternative-after-whatsapp-fully-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance tool or accessible messenger? All we know about MAX, Russia&#8217;s alternative after WhatsApp fully blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fully blocking Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp in Russia, the Putin administration has moved to push a state-backed &#8216;national messenger&#8217;. This decision comes after Russia blocked WhatsApp for failing to comply with local laws.<\/p>\n<p>In an official statement, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that WhatsApp was blocked due to &#8220;Meta&#8217;s unwillingness to comply with Russian law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fully blocking Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp in Russia, the Putin administration has moved to push a state-backed &#8216;national messenger&#8217;. This decision comes after Russia blocked WhatsApp for failing to comply with local laws. In an official statement, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated that WhatsApp was blocked due to &#8220;Meta&#8217;s unwillingness to comply with Russian law.&#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":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991835","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=991835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}