@Julf @cstross It's also part of bad-faith actor Christopher Rufo's (of anti-CRT infamy) campaign to oust the new NPR CEO. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/chris-rufo-katherine-maher-signal
"Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram."https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1789687898863792453