{"id":146064,"date":"2026-02-12T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146064"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:57:11","slug":"metas-whatsapp-accuses-russia-of-blocking-its-service-to-force-users-to-state-super-appunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146064","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s WhatsApp accuses Russia of blocking its service to force users to state \u2018super-app\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, accused authorities in Russia on Thursday of trying to fully block its service to drive Russians to a state-owned app, which it alleged was used for surveillance.<br \/>\n\u201cTrying \u200cto isolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication is a backwards step and can only lead to less safety for people in Russia,\u201d the world\u2019s most popular messaging service said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u201cWe continue to do everything we can to keep users&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/russia-central-asia\/article\/3343343\/metas-whatsapp-accuses-russia-blocking-its-service-force-users-state-super-app?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms, accused authorities in Russia on Thursday of trying to fully block its service&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}