Donald Trump’s most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.
They signed up for incogni after watching a YouTube streamer to learn Signal but invited a Russian data broker to the meeting about it.
The above is fake news. Maybe.
Highly doubt it. Der Spiegel has a record of solid investigative journalism, and they used publicly accessible information.
They weren’t saying that Der Spiegel was fake news, they were saying that their own sentence above was likely false. Could have just used /s or something, but yeah, they weren’t calling out Der Spiegel
Yeah, you’re right. Wasn’t properly caffeinated and my knee jerked. Sorry about that, Hobbes!
No, no, I just mean my bullshit. Because satire is dead.
More correctly, it’s obsolete.
It just can’t keep up with a reality that is this absurd.
I think they meant their own message. As in “this is the most ridiculous bullshit I could come up with, but maybe they really fucked up that bad”.