{"id":52589,"date":"2025-12-05T03:33:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:03:29","slug":"russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/russia-blocks-snapchat-and-restricts-apples-facetime-state-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple\u2019s FaceTime, state officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">N Shorts<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple\u2019s FaceTime, state officials say<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Latest effort to control communications comes as regulator claims apps being used to \u2018conduct terrorist activities\u2019Russian authorities blocked access to Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple\u2019s video calling service, FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online, according to state-run news agencies and the country\u2019s communications regulator.The state internet regulator Roskomnadzor alleged in a statement that both apps were being \u201cused to organize and conduct terrorist activities on the territory of the country, to recruit perpetrators [and] commit fraud and other crimes against our citizens\u201d. Apple did not respond to an emailed request for comment, nor did Snap Inc. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/04\/russia-snapchat-apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Latest+effort+to+control+communications+comes+as+regulator+claims+apps+being+used+to+%E2%80%98conduct+terrorist+activities%E2%80%99Russian+authorities+blocked+access+to+Snapchat+and+imposed+restrictions+on+Apple%E2\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Russia blocks Snapchat and restricts Apple\u2019s FaceTime, state officials say Latest effort to control communications comes as regulator claims apps being used to \u2018conduct terrorist activities\u2019Russian authorities blocked access to Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple\u2019s video calling service, FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52590,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions\/52590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}