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Wired / Morgan Meaker
/ Mar 22“WhatsApp is one of Russia’s few remaining Western services. Although the app is not used to disseminate news in the same way as Facebook or Instagram, both experts and people inside Russia suspect the Kremlin is hesitant to block the country’s most-used platforms. WhatsApp is hugely popular in Russia, with 84 million monthly users in January 2022, according to Statista.” —
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