{"id":554766,"date":"2026-02-12T05:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/russia-is-blocking-whatsapp-to-push-surveillance-app-company-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:53:37","slug":"russia-is-blocking-whatsapp-to-push-surveillance-app-company-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/russia-is-blocking-whatsapp-to-push-surveillance-app-company-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is blocking WhatsApp to push \u2018surveillance\u2019 app, company says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Russia<\/p>\n

Russian news outlets reported on Wednesday that WhatsApp\u2019s domain had been completely blocked and was inaccessible without a VPN or another workaround.<\/p>\n

WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by social media giant Meta, has accused Russia of attempting to block access for millions of its users in an attempt to push them towards its state-owned alternative.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to isolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication is a backward step and can only lead to less safety for people in Russia. We continue to do everything we can to keep users connected,\u201d the company said<\/a> in an X post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s state-backed platform Max was launched in March\u202f2025 by Russian tech firm VK as a domestic alternative to foreign-owned services like WhatsApp and Telegram. <\/p>\n

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Russian news outlets reported on Wednesday that WhatsApp\u2019s domain had been completely blocked and was inaccessible without a VPN or another workaround. WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by social media giant Meta, has accused Russia of attempting to block access for millions of its users in an attempt to push them towards its state-owned alternative. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":554767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-554766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}