TeleMessage, an encrypted messaging app used by top government officials, has temporarily suspended its service after a reported cyberattack, raising concerns about the security of sensitive communications.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and his deputy Alex Wong will be ousted Thursday from their roles at the National Security Council, according to reports.
President Donald Trump plans to meet on Thursday with Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who published the Signal story in March and the hoax story claiming Trump called fallen World War I soldiers “suckers” and “losers.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied a story from NPR on Monday that alleged the White House is looking to replace Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell responded to the establishment news media relaunching Signal-gate attacks against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, noting that it is “another old story” that is “back from the dead.”
During a hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) pointed out that files pertaining to former President John F. Kennedy’s assassination “show no evidence of a CIA conspiracy,” and said they should be focusing on Signal-Gate.
Indicators show that the establishment media’s push to make the White House Signal controversy into a lasting saga is failing after just nine days.
Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said the Signal chat among senior national security officials in the Trump administration was a “gross violation of the law.” Cooper said, “The White House says the case is closed on
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” host Kasie Hunt said that the deaths of 13 American soldiers in the Kabul airport bombing “is absolutely not comparable at all to anything that was conducted on a phone” with the Signal
Sen. Ted Cruz said the Signal-gate attacks on Donald Trump “failed utterly” after a new CBS News poll revealed his approval rating.
Media attacks on the Trump administration due to the Atlantic’s leak of Signal messages do “not seem tied to evaluations of Mr. Trump overall,” according to a CBS News poll that found the president’s approval rating to be 50 percent.
Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Signal chat among senior national security officials did not include classified information.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) claimed Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Trump administration officials who were saying the content of a Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis was not classified information was insulting Americans.
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it was “entirely appropriate” for an inspector general to investigate the Signal chat among senior national security officials.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig claimed Friday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Attorney General Pam Bondi “failed miserably” at exercising independence by announcing the Signal chat among senior national security officials did not include classified information.
Thursday, during the monologue segment of FNC’s “The Will Cain Show,” host Will Cain criticized the media for its obsession with the so-called Signalgate scandal.
Representative Gregory Meeks (D-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump needed to be “held accountable” for the Signal chat among senior national security officials.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) stated that officials in the Trump administration should not have had the conversations they did about strikes against the Houthis over Signal. Host Leland Vittert asked, “Why play hide
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) stated there was “clearly classified” in the Trump administration’s Signal chat and “If I would have done this in the Air Force, I would have lost
Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that the Signal chat among senior national security officials shows President Donald Trump’s second administration was “drunk with power.”
WASHINGTON–White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted the Atlantic and its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, during Wednesday’s press briefing, while addressing Goldberg’s “sensationalized story” on Signal communications between Cabinet officials.
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should resign over the Signal chat among senior national security officials.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Arena” that there is “no way in hell” Trump administration officials’ Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis is not classified information.
The judge assigned to a civil lawsuit regarding a Signal group chat among Trump cabinet members on Houthi strikes is the same judge who issued an order to block the administration’s deportation of suspected Tren de Aragua gang members.
The president of Signal defended the messaging app’s security after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom they used to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen’s Houthis.
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe “lied” under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee when denying classified information was included in a Signal group chat on military strikes against the Houthis.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) stated that members of the Trump administration discussed “very sensitive information” on Signal and that’s the wrong platform to do so and “I don’t communicate super-sensitive information, or, certainly, classified
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz stated that there was someone else who was supposed to be on the Signal chat that Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly on who
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz stated that it is odd that Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who has “gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear
Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe testified to the Senate Tuesday that government officials are authorized to use the encrypted messaging application Signal for work, following the disclosure that the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic got inadvertently added to a group chat of senior Trump national security officials.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) harped on President Donald Trump’s national security officials after a journalist was inadvertently added to an encrypted group chat that discussed military strikes before they occurred — despite his own recent history of secret messages with a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch closely allied with Vladimir Putin getting leaked.
Meredith Whittaker, the head of encrypted messaging app Signal, has voiced her concerns about the AI industry’s reliance on mass surveillance and its potential to exert control over our lives.
Meredith Whittaker, the president of private messaging app Signal, shed light on the intrinsic link between AI and Big Tech’s surveillance capitalism, emphasizing the profound implications of the technology on privacy and user data during her appearance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Whittaker went so far as to label AI as “surveillance technology,” which may be why the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe are rushing to integrate AI into everything they do.
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has said it would exit the United Kingdom if a major piece of internet regulation set to be passed in the country compromises its ability to offer end-to-end encryption to its users.
The privacy-focused messaging app Signal recently attempted to run an ad campaign on the Facebook-owned Instagram platform that highlighted the invasive data collection of big tech firms. According to Signal’s CEO, Facebook swiftly shut the campaign down.
The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has surpassed 100 million daily search queries for the first time ever, marking a major milestone in the site’s 12-year-old history. The site’s surging daily activity comes as a wave of consumers embrace alternatives to the Masters of the Universe, including messaging services like Signal and Telegram, and social media platforms such as Gab.
The messaging service WhatsApp has reportedly delayed an upcoming privacy change that it claims caused “confusion” amongst users who believe that the app would be sharing more data, including their messages, with parent company Facebook.
Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging app has suffered a major drop in new downloads as many users turn to private messaging apps Signal and Telegram following changes to WhatsApp’s terms of service.
Signal has seen “unprecedented” and “vertical” growth in recent days, according to Brian Acton, the Signal Foundation’s executive chairman.
Internal documents from the European Union Council reveal that the bloc is seeking to ban end-to-end encryption on messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal, following the recent Islamic terror attacks in France and Austria. A draft Council of the
