Signal is a messaging app whose development was overseen by a white ex-anarchist who paid himself hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. While now widely used internationally, the app was originally popularized by the u.s. progressive activist milieu, which ignored & downplayed many of the issues described below.
Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (2015)
goodbye_signal.txt (2017)
I don't trust Signal (2018)
Signal founder's response to criticism (2021)
Microsoft’s AI Starts Reading All Your WhatsApp, Signal Messages (2025)
SIGNAL SECURITY CHECKLIST (2026?)
Signal Problems (2026). français: Problèmes de Signal