The encrypted messaging app Signal is receiving renewed attention after high-level members of President Donald Trump’s administration inadvertently added a journalist to a group chat discussing ...

If you hadn’t heard of Signal before Monday, chances are you have now. The secure messaging app, available for iPhones and Android devices, has long been popular with journalists because of its ...

Messaging app Signal is in the news, and not for anything positive. Defense Secretary and former Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth recently demonstrated how not to use a secure communications ...

A popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app ...

Encryption on Signal is turned on by default, unlike another popular messaging app, Telegram, which requires users to turn it on and does not make it available for group chats. Signal has features ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified that using Signal for work is allowed by the CIA. The Atlantic's editor-in-chief was added to a Signal chat where Trump officials discussed war plans.

Review and Outlook: The furor over the Signal messaging leak will fade, but not JD Vance's contempt for European allies. Photo: Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Press/Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Reuters ...

Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Signal, the favorite chat app for spies and journalists, got an unusual kind of endorsement this week after U.S. national-security officials were revealed to be ...

He reported from New York. The Signal group chat that senior Trump administration officials convened to discuss military strikes in Yemen has sparked outrage over the reckless way a journalist was ...

After Trump administration officials denied sharing classified information in the Signal group chat that inadvertently included a journalist, the reporter released the withheld details from the ...

Users can also set Signal messages to disappear after a certain length of time. Users who want their messages to disappear can turn on the feature in the settings for each of their individual chats.

Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...