Published on: 2025-05-11 03:36:19
Last month, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been accidentally included in a government group chat where confidential war plans were shared. US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was the one who added Goldberg, but he blamed the number getting “sucked in” by his phone. Now, a new report at The Guardian explains how an iOS feature played a key role in the whole mess. Hugo Lowell writes at The Guardian: According to three people briefed on the internal inves
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In Brief How did Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg get added to a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials discussing their plans for an airstrike in Yemen? The simplest explanation: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had Goldberg saved as a contact in his phone and accidentally added him. Indeed, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked in” from another contact, Goldberg scoffed, “This isn’t ‘The Matrix.’” But according to the Guardian, an inte
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In Brief Last weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, found himself at the center of a digital fiasco when he was unexpectedly added to a Signal group chat with 17 U.S. government officials who were discussing imminent airstrikes in Yemen. For some, the incident has raised questions about how phone numbers end up in contact lists and how messaging apps pull in users. National security adviser Mike Waltz on Wednesday stated that Goldberg’s number was “sucked in” from another
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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have lied when he said that "nobody was texting war plans." In a stunning piece for The Atlantic on Monday, the magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had accidentally been added to a Signal group chat between key national security personnel — including Hegseth, vice president JD Vance, and national security advisor Mark Waltz — as they discussed an upcoming offensive in Yemen. Not only was the use of Signal a reckless departure f
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Sometimes the most serious news stories result in the best collection of satirical memes. On Monday, the Atlantic magazine posted an article by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg headlined "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." And while that may sound like a parody story in The Onion, it was all too real. Goldberg had somehow been added to a group chat using Signal, an open-source, encrypted messaging service, along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete
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Pentagon Issued Warning About Signal Messaging One Week Before Its Head Was Caught Using It This is nuts. Chat N'War Earlier this week, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed in a startling piece that he'd accidentally been added to a group chat on Signal between key national leadership including defense secretary Pete Hegseth and national security advisor Mark Waltz as they discussed an upcoming offensive in Yemen. The White House has gone on the defensive, saying no class
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Getting added to the wrong group chat is a common problem, but what if that group chat is describing an upcoming military strike? That’s what happened to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was added to a Signal group chat formed by high-ranking members of the Trump administration to discuss plans for military strikes on Yemen. As a result, he had the details of a bombing attack targeting the Houthis hours before it actually occurred on March 15th, facts later confirmed not only b
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In Brief The Trump administration’s national security leaders accidentally included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a chat on Signal discussing confidential plans to attack Yemen’s Houthis. “I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans,” Goldberg wrote of the March 15 messages, which Goldberg received two hours before the U.S. dropped its bombs. Signal and other commercial tech pla
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Journalists often dream of finding the right government leaker who can share with them detailed information about the internal workings of the federal government. Few journalists would presume, however, that the ideal leaker might, in fact, be the head of the U.S. Armed Services. That appears to have been what happened, when the U.S. Secretary of Defense and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth reportedly texted detailed operational war plans to the head editor of The Atlantic. The editor i
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A prominent journalist knew the US military would start bombing Houthi targets in Yemen two hours before it happened on March 15 because top Trump administration officials accidentally included the reporter on a Signal text chain in which they discussed the war plan. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, described the surprising leak of sensitive military information in an article today. The National Security Council confirmed that the messages were real and said it is inv
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