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Chat platforms like Telegram, WhatsApp avoid being blocked by Russia

Chat platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram have avoided being blocked by Russia unlike some of the world's biggest social networks in a tenuous tolerance that experts warn could end suddenly.

YouTube, which has barred channels linked to Russian state media globally, was on 18 March 2022, also facing a direct threat of being blocked after Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, accused the site's owner Google of being "anti-Russian".