SignalGate Is Driving the Most US Downloads of Signal Ever
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The article describes how “SignalGate”—a scandal in which senior Trump administration officials allegedly plotted a Yemen bombing in a Signal group chat and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief—sparked a massive U.S. surge in Signal adoption in 2025, doubling typical weekly downloads, according to Signal’s Jun Harada. This is characterized as Signal’s largest U.S. growth spike to date and is contrasted with the 2021 WhatsApp privacy-policy change that drove mostly non-U.S. users to Signal.
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