{"id":1812,"date":"2025-08-14T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:19:00","slug":"whatsapp-accuses-russia-of-trying-to-block-its-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/whatsapp-accuses-russia-of-trying-to-block-its-service\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp accuses Russia of trying to block its service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp, the highly popular messaging service owned by Meta, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/ap\/ap-international\/ap-russia-restricts-calls-via-whatsapp-and-telegram-the-latest-step-to-control-the-internet-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused the Russian government<\/a> Wednesday of trying to block its service.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatsApp is private, end-to-end encrypted, and defies government attempts to violate people\u2019s right to secure communication, which is why Russia is trying to block it from over 100 million Russian people,\u201d the company said in a statement posted on social platform X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep doing all we can to make end-to-end encrypted communication available to people everywhere, including in Russia,\u201d it continued.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has taken measures to restrict calls on both WhatsApp and Telegram, Russian state media reported. Russia\u2019s communications regulator Roskomnadzor&nbsp;told the state-owned outlet TASS that it was limiting calls on the platforms to combat criminals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has long taken aim at various social media and communication platforms in the country, blocking or restricting access to Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is one of the world\u2019s most popular messaging apps with more than 3 billion monthly users, despite its limited adoption in the U.S. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Telegram, created by Russian entrepreneur Pavel Durov who now resides outside the country, similarly has a greater reach outside the U.S., with more than 1 billion monthly users. The platform also offers users the option to send messages with end-to-end encryption.<\/p>\n<p>The recent decision to target WhatsApp and Telegram comes as Putin is <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5451846-trump-putin-alaska-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">set to meet<\/a> with President Trump in Alaska on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine, a highly anticipated summit more than three years into the conflict.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp, the highly popular messaging service owned by Meta, accused the Russian government Wednesday of trying to block its service.&nbsp; \u201cWhatsApp is private, end-to-end encrypted, and defies government attempts to<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/whatsapp-accuses-russia-of-trying-to-block-its-service\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp accuses Russia of trying to block its service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}