On Monday, a major outage at Amazon Web Services affected a large number of websites and apps, including end-to-end encrypted messenger Signal. In response, X Executive Chairman and Chief Technical Officer Elon Musk claimed that he no longer trusts Signal. “I don’t trust Signal anymore,” Musk stated, plainly. To be clear, the centralized infrastructure upon […]
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Did you find this article by typing in the name of a website associated with Elon Musk? Did it sound like you could invest in SpaceX, Neuralink, or one of Musk’s AI ventures like Grok and xAI? It’s fake. It’s 100%, without a doubt, completely fake. I know you may not believe it, but please […]
Photo Shows Mike Waltz Using Signal in Wednesday’s White House Cabinet Meeting
Today, the Trump administration announced that national security advisor Mike Waltz would be leaving the White House after the disastrous Signal debacle last month. Waltz never seems to have learned his lesson, however, as a photo taken just yesterday shows Waltz using the app while in a meeting at the White House. The photo, taken […]
Pete Hegseth’s Signal Saga Gets Worse With Report of ‘Dirty’ Internet Line
Did you know that United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a member of Sleeper.com, a fantasy football betting site? Or that he thinks the staff of some random dental office is “amazing”? We shouldn’t know, but we do thanks to Hegseth’s messy digital habits. In a continuation of “Signalgate”, new reports indicate that […]
Even a Republican Congressman Is Turning on Pete Hegseth After Signalgate 2.0
Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary, is on the ropes. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Hegseth had been involved in yet another texting scandal involving the encrypted chat app Signal. Then, on Monday, NPR reported that the administration was looking to replace Hegseth. However, not long after the public broadcaster’s […]
DoD Inspector General Says He’s Looking Into SignalGate
The noise from SignalGate has apparently become too much to ignore. On Thursday, the Defense Department inspector general’s office announced that it will take a look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to organize, with other members of the Trump administration, a military operation in Yemen that reportedly killed at least 53 people. […]
Mike Waltz Can’t Stop Making Signal Groups
Mike Waltz is a chatty guy. The national security adviser to Donald Trump who accidentally added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat about an attack on Yemen actually has quite a few group chats going, according to Politico. He and his team have reportedly set up at least 20 chats meant to […]
Trump Official Was Reportedly Involved in Other Questionable Signal Chats
The Trump administration made itself look more incompetent and dysfunctional than usual last week when the Secretary of Defense accidentally texted details of a secret bombing mission in Yemen to the head editor of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. “Signalgate”—as it has come to be known—has spurred fresh scrutiny of the White House, as concerns swirl […]
The Pentagon Sent Out a Warning Against Using Signal Right Before Yemen Group Chat Fiasco
The Pentagon warned against using Signal in a memo just last week, according to NPR. It cited threats from Russian hackers. The memo was delivered department-wide days before The Atlantic published a bombshell revelation that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat that involved detailed discussions of planned strikes […]