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I had never heard of one being convened over a commercial messaging app

“Good thing” Signal was initially funded by the Open Technology Fund, a subsidiary of Radio Free Asia, a project of the CIA (who some members of the group chat mentioned in the article are a part of).

By the way, on the day before the attack discussed in the group chat, Trump announced the dissolution of the US Agency for Global Media (that supervises Radio Free Asia and the OTF), after establishing a new CEO earlier this year

Very hard times for The Onion