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Signalgate explained: what is Signal, and how secure is the messaging app?

Signal is the most secure messaging app for your smartphone, but a recent leak from a US government chat group has raised questions. So how safe is Signal and how do you use it properly?

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Six In Ten Republicans Say Signalgate Is a Serious Problem Even As Trump Officials Downplay It

A new poll shows that a majority of Republicans believe the discussing of attack plans in a messaging app is a serious problem. Overall, three quarters of Americans hold the same belief

Latin Times

Americans think Signal blunder is as big a deal as Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server: Poll

Americans view the Signal leak in at least as bad a light as Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State

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Team Trump now stranded without a Signal

The president’s people are pretending like they’re playing video games, while real lives remain in the balance

Salon

Pete Hegseth says Signal chat had no ‘war plans’. He’s wrong, say experts

Signal app messages revealed Yemen bombing timelines, prompting debate about their classification and implications.

Al Jazeera

Dems Seek Trump Admin Records In Signal Chat Debacle As The Atlantic Publishes More Screenshots

House Democrats have moved to potentially force the Trump administration to produce crucial documents related to the leaked Signal text messages that divided the nation in recent days due to concerns over national security.

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Top Trump aide in Signal chat was in Russia while the text stream was active—but denies he had personal or government-issued phone with him

Special envoy Steve Witkoff was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 13, at the same time he was in an active Signal group of about a dozen U.S. officials.

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Photos of Mike Waltz Standing Next to Atlantic Journalist Surface After Trump Advisor Claimed They 'Never Met'

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has denied ever meeting Jeffrey Goldberg, but newly resurfaced images suggest that claim may be false.

Latin Times

Fox News immediately downplays full damaging texts from Atlantic group chat story

‘Looks like Goldberg overpromised,’ Lawrence Jones asserted shortly after The Atlantic published the latest texts. ‘There’s not war plans here’

The Independent UK

White House Said It Opposed The Atlantic Releasing War Plans Conversation; The Editor-In-Chief Did It Anyway

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration did not encourage the release of messages sent in a Signal group chat, but there was no classified information shared.

Latin Times

Trump Admin Blasted for 'Lying' About War Plans Leak After Journalist Added to Signal Group Publishes Full Texts: 'Is This Treason?'

Members of the Trump administration are being blasted by users online for denying sharing highly sensitive military plans on a group chat.

Latin Times

White House Relies On One Word To Reject It Was Discussing War Plans On Signal Group Chat

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that since The Atlantic's headline reads "attack plans" rather than "war plans" its whole argument is moot

Latin Times

Journalist Added to Signal Group Chat Shares Specific Attack Plans Texted After Hegseth Denied War Plans Were Shared

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg shared the minute-to-minute updates officials were getting from Pete Hegseth as attacks were carried out

Latin Times

Signal chat group affair: unprecedented security breach will seriously damage US international relations

Plans for an attack against an enemy target are classified in America. But the private views of high-ranking officials about allies, communicated within government, must also count as intelligence to be protected.

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International Business Times

Magazine Publishes US Attack Plan Mistakenly Shared In Chat Group

The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday published what it said was the entire text of a chat group mistakenly shared with a journalist by top US national security officials laying out plans of an imminent attack on Yemen.

Salon

The most chilling lesson of Signalgate

From what we can see on newly released text messages, Trump's people don't know what he's talking about

Al Jazeera

The Atlantic publishes Yemen ‘attack plans shared by Trump aides’ on Signal

Details released by media outlet include the times of US strikes and types of aircraft being used against the Houthis.

Salon

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JD Vance may be right and wrong about the Suez Canal and Europe

Attacks on tankers or, worse, a wider conflict in the Arabian Peninsula, could spur stagflation.

International Business Times

Trump Downplays Firestorm Over Leaked Yemen Air Strike Chat

Trump said he would "look into" the use of the Signal app as he put on a united front at a meeting with US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who inadvertently included The Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg in the conversation of top national security officials.

The Conversation

Leak of US military plans on Signal is a classic case of ‘shadow IT’. It shows why security systems need to be easy to use

Yesterday, The Atlantic magazine revealed an extraordinary national security blunder in the United States. Top US government officials had discussed plans for a bombing campaign in Yemen against Houthi rebels in a Signal group chat which inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

The Independent UK

Mike Waltz admits he made Signal war admin group but accuses Atlantic editor of ‘tricking’ his way into chat

Defense Secretary accused reporter who received chats of ‘peddling hoaxes’ earlier in day

Al Jazeera

‘Sloppy’: Trump downplays shock over leaked Signal chat about Yemen attack

Democrats have called the high-level discussions on the messaging app Signal ‘obviously reckless, obviously dangerous’.

The Independent UK

We should not underestimate the historic threat Donald Trump represents – to his country, to the West and to a free press

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The US president is behaving more and more as though he is not only above the law – but is the law

The Independent UK

The Signal chat blunder has shaken Washington. Except in the White House where it’s brushed off

Trump and his aides are now describing accurate reporting on a national security breach as a ‘hoax’

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