Russia Finds Meta Guilty of ‘Extremist Activity’, Says WhatsApp Can Stay

Russia Finds Meta Guilty of ‘Extremist Activity’, Says WhatsApp Can Stay
A woman holds smartphone with Meta logo in front of a displayed Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken on Oct. 28, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
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A Moscow court on Monday found Meta Platforms Inc. guilty of “extremist activity”, but said its decision would not affect the WhatsApp messenger service, focusing its ire on the company’s already banned Facebook and Instagram social networks.

Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court upheld a lawsuit filed by Russian state prosecutors on banning the activities of Meta on Russian territory, the court’s press service said in a statement.