{"id":991986,"date":"2026-02-14T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991986"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:41:57","slug":"whatsapp-says-russia-has-tried-to-fully-block-the-messaging-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/whatsapp-says-russia-has-tried-to-fully-block-the-messaging-app\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp says Russia has tried to fully block the messaging app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has attempted to fully block WhatsApp in the country, the company said, the latest move in an ongoing government effort to tighten control over the internet. <\/p>\n<p>A WhatsApp spokesperson said late Wednesday that the Russian authorities&#8217; action was intended to &#8220;drive users to a state-owned surveillance app,&#8221; a reference to Russia&#8217;s own state-supported MAX messaging app that&#8217;s seen by critics as a surveillance tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has attempted to fully block WhatsApp in the country, the company said, the latest move in an ongoing government effort to tighten control over the internet. A WhatsApp spokesperson said late Wednesday that the Russian authorities&#8217; action was intended to &#8220;drive users to a state-owned surveillance app,&#8221; a reference to Russia&#8217;s own state-supported MAX messaging app that&#8217;s seen by critics as a surveillance tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991986","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}