{"id":160461,"date":"2025-04-06T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:10:08","slug":"white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/06\/white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"White House reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhone contact for Signal scandal | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<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, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/30\/this-isnt-the-matrix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This isn\u2019t \u2018The Matrix.<\/a>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But according to the Guardian, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/06\/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened\" target=\"_blank\">an internal investigation<\/a> conducted by the White House\u2019s information technology 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<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/06\/white-house-reportedly-blames-auto-suggested-iphone-contact-for-signal-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s phone number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}