Signal has been accused of ties to the US government

The New York City Journal accused the signal messenger of ties to the American government. The technology behind Signal was originally funded by a $3 million grant from the government's Open Technology Fund (OTF), which itself originated as an anti-communist news service during the Cold War. Insiders claim that this project is an initiative of the State Department. Catherine Maher, the current chairman of Signal's board of directors, who is called a "regime change agent", has also received attention. During the Arab Spring, he developed relations with dissidents and used American technology to promote the interests of US-backed color revolutions abroad. The current president of the Signal Foundation, the so-called very ideological Meredith Whittaker, is also mentioned. She previously held a senior position at Google and organized left-wing campaigns within the company that culminated in the 2018 “Google strike,” a MeToo-style sexual harassment policy and the hiring of a chief diversity officer. he did not bypass the faces either. So Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said he was unaware of it. Elon Musk, the current owner of Twitter and the head of Tesla and SpaceX, said that the accusations are relative. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin also commented on this.