{"id":661141,"date":"2025-04-07T02:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:40:16","slug":"white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"White House reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhone contact for Signal scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2019s phone number was \u201csucked in\u201d from another contact, Goldberg scoffed, \u201cThis isn\u2019t \u2018The Matrix.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But according to the Guardian, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/06\/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened\">an internal investigation<\/a> conducted by the White House\u2019s information <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> office concluded that something more complicated taken place, with an iPhone auto-suggestion playing a key role: After Goldberg emailed the White House for comment on a story, a Trump spokesperson, Brian Hughes, texted the contents of Goldberg\u2019s email to Waltz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, Waltz\u2019s iPhone offered a \u201ccontact suggestion update\u201d that ultimately saved Goldberg\u2019s phone number under Hughes\u2019 name. Then, when Waltz tried to add Hughes \u2014 now a spokesperson for the National Security Council \u2014 to the chat, he supposedly ended up adding Goldberg instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For his part, Goldberg said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz beyond saying I do know him and have spoken to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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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\u2019s phone number&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2150494835.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151537,155383,139479,72287,90583],"class_list":["post-661141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-government-policy","tag-jeffrey-goldberg","tag-mike-waltz","tag-security","tag-signal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}