Russia is intensifying efforts to push users away from foreign messaging apps and toward a domestic platform that has been criticized as a surveillance tool.

Russia has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into Telegram CEO Pavel Durov over alleged facilitation of terrorist ...

Meta has confirmed that it will shut down the standalone Messenger website, messenger.com, starting April 2026. All you need to know.

Telegram has denied a Russian accusation that foreign intelligence services have breached its security and gained access to the messages exchanged by its users.

Meta is shutting down its standalone Messenger website, the company shared in a help page. Starting April 2026, the website ...

Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Telegram, one of the most popular messenger services in Russia, is widely used by Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, but is under pressure from the authorities who have imposed restrictions on it ove ...

The U.S.-made messenger imo has been gaining popularity among Russians amid an ongoing crackdown on WhatsApp and Telegram in ...

Russia has confirmed it has fully blocked WhatsApp, marking one of the most significant steps yet in its ongoing efforts to ...

Messenger and WhatsApp maybe the default messaging app for many, but for a smarter, more private, and more streamlined ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday said that US messenger app WhatsApp has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local law, suggesting Russians turn to a state-backed “national ...

The digital curtain is falling in Russia as the Kremlin officially pulled the plug on WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging app. The post Russia shuts down WhatsApp, promotes state-backed app appeared ...