In general, the quoted messages dont tell us a lot.
According to the Post, Johnson first pinged Vance the day after Vance won his Senate election in 2022.
The two texted over the next 20 months about things like Ukraine, UFOs, and Israel.
Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks to reporters aboard “Trump Force 2” at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on July 31, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona.© Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Signal is an end-to-end encrypted platform so how, exactly, did journalists get ahold of these messages?
And Johnson loves drama.
The red-headed blogging weirdo has been a fixture of extremely online circles for years now.
Twitterbanned him for lifein 2015 for soliciting funds to take out a civil rights activist.
He onceclaimed to be the co-founderof facial recognition giant Clearview AI.
He met with Palmer Luckey and Trump to talk about theborder wall in 2017.
And started a crowdfunding website famous for raising cash to defend anavowed Neo-Nazi.
Hes not the kind of guy you want a record of talking to.
With Signal, they can do it at the account level or per group chat.
Critically, the messages will be deleted from both sides of the conversation.
This should, hypothetically, stop someone youre talking to from sharing the texts with anyone.
Other apps have disappearing messages but are typically not as robust or customizable as Signals feature.
Disappearing messages are key if your group chat is spicy and you dont want anyone to ever see it.
Its not perfect though.
It wont stop a malicious contact from screenshotting the messages before they vanish.
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This guy loves group chats.
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The Mike Waltz story gets dumber.
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These are not bright guys.
