Since the news broke on Monday that senior Trump administration cabinet members accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in a group chat on the Signal encrypted messaging platform where the officials were making secret plans to bomb Yemen, the ensuing news cycle and the constant mentions of Signal have led to the encrypted messaging platform doubling its usual rate of new downloads, the nonprofit organization that runs Signal tells WIRED. Given that 2025 has already been a 'banner year' for Signal's growth, according to Signal's leadership, that makes this week the single biggest bump in US adoption of the app in Signal's nearly 11 years of existence. Harada declined to give absolute numbers for Signal's user growth beyond saying that its total downloads are in the 'hundreds of millions,' which has been the case for several years. But he said that the week's rate of adoption has been twice that of a typical week for 2025, which in turn was twice that of a typical...
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