The Meta-owned service is likely to be added to a list of software subject to restrictions due to its ties to Western countries, Gorelkin said. — AFP
MOSCOW: Messaging app WhatsApp may soon be blocked in Russia, as lawmakers push for tighter restrictions on digital platforms from "unfriendly countries".
"It’s time for WhatsApp to prepare to leave the Russian market," Anton Gorelkin, deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, wrote on Telegram on July 18. The Meta-owned service is likely to be added to a list of software subject to restrictions due to its ties to Western countries, he said.
