{
  "id": 580383,
  "title": "Even the AI assistant inside Russia’s state-backed Max messenger tells users not to trust the app",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/even-the-ai-assistant-inside-russias-state-backed-max-messenger-tells",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T15:39:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/11/even-the-ai-assistant-inside-russia-s-state-backed-max-messenger-tells-users-not-to-trust-the-app"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Alisa, the AI assistant built into the Max messenger, has been telling users in chat conversations to install other apps instead — Telegram, Signal, or WhatsApp. The independent Russian news outlet Verstka noticed the pattern.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}