T he Trump administration is facing heavy blowback for using Signal, a messaging app, to discuss sensitive military plans. On March 24, officials’ usage of the app was revealed after The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg published a story titled "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans ,

A Biden-era Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) best guidance document shows highly-targeted government employees were encouraged to use Signal.

The claim spread after The Atlantic reported that Trump officials accidentally added the publication's editor-in-chief to a Signal group chat.

A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of US national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials allegedly used Signal for a group chat to discuss a highly sensitive operation.

Dozens of public officials in Lancaster County have said they don’t conduct government business over message-deleting apps like Signal.

The guidance “strongly urges” senior national security officials to use the app for communication, but does not specify rules for classified information.

Hegseth and other top administration officials have said that no classified information was shared in a Signal messaging app chat group.