INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
United States tech company Meta will not launch its WhatsApp Channels service in Russia following threats that it could be blocked for
WhatsApp Channels to 150 countries
Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, as an "extremist" organization shortly after Moscow's troops invaded Ukraine in early
2022.The ruling did not affect WhatsApp since, as the courtargued, it lacked the functionality for the public dissemination of
