{"id":175112,"date":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=175112"},"modified":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T11:39:41","slug":"whatsapp-messaging-suspended-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=175112","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp messaging suspended in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mobile phone companies in Brazil have been ordered by a court to impose a block of the popular WhatsApp smartphone application for two days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A court in Sao Paulo state made the order because it said WhatsApp had repeatedly failed to co-operate in a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not clear if mobile companies will fully comply with the order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facebook owns the app. Its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said he was &#8220;stunned&#8221; by the &#8220;extreme&#8221; ruling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WhatsApp is reported to be the most used application in Brazil, with about 93 million users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TechCrunch website says it is used by 93% of the country&#8217;s internet population and is especially popular among young people and the poor who take advantage of its free text message and internet telephone service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It says Brazilians spend almost twice as much time on social media as Americans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone companies in Brazil have been ordered by a court to impose a block of the popular WhatsApp smartphone application for two days. A court in Sao Paulo state made the order because it said WhatsApp had repeatedly failed to co-operate in a criminal investigation. It is not clear if mobile companies will fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":62524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18,38],"class_list":["post-175112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}