WhatsApp, the highly popular messaging service owned by Meta, accused the Russian government Wednesday of trying to block its service.

“WhatsApp is private, end-to-end encrypted, and defies government attempts to violate people’s right to secure communication, which is why Russia is trying to block it from over 100 million Russian people,” the company said in a statement posted on the social media platform X.

“We will keep doing all we can to make end-to-end encrypted communication available to people everywhere, including in Russia,” it continued.

Moscow has taken measures to restrict calls on both WhatsApp and Telegram, Russian state media reported. Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor told the state-owned outlet TASS that it was limiting calls on the platforms to combat cri

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