Doesn’t matter actually. I don’t know why they endorsed it, maybe they were thinking, “How can we keep our little terrorist safe from the government”. That may have been the context. Now that they ARE the government they may not be so ken on it. Signal is open source, you can go download the code yourself and if you had the knowledge you could even setup your own private signal server.
I don’t know exactly what is running on the app stores but as far as messaging systems go you’re probably not going to get more open than signal; and, as I said, there is always the options of setting up your own private signal network amongst you and your friends.
Wake up and do your due diligence. Signal was developed by a Twitter IT security guy and is pushed on others by Dorsey.
Telegram is also open source if that’s what floats yo9ur boat.
“All of Telegram’s official apps are open source. Telegram provides end-to-end encrypted calls and optional end-to-end encrypted “secret” chats between two online users on smartphone clients, whereas cloud chats use client-server/server-client encryption.”
And the last sentence is where Twitter gets you monitored, “cloud chats using client-server/server-client encryption.” They are playing you.
But here’s the kicker.
Twitter is a known weaponized political censor. Telegram is not.