A tech company with ties to Israeli intelligence, TeleMessage’s riskier app appears to be favored by Trump’s national security team.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29486510

Jason Paladino
May 02, 2025

“During Wednesday’s meeting for Trump’s cabinet, Mike Waltz checked the app on his phone, using what appeared to be Signal. As news broke that Waltz had lost his job as National Security Advisor, images from the cabinet meeting circulated widely online on Thursday. Upon closer inspection of the photos, it turned out that Waltz was not using the traditional Signal app. He appeared to be using an archiving app made by Israeli firm TeleMessage, which sells companion apps meant to enable archiving messages.”

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    He isn’t even gone from the government, Trump is moving him to be ambassador to the U.N.

    The old tried-and-true ‘move the priest to a new parish’ strategy.