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November 17, 2024

Encrypted messaging app Signal blocked in China

March 16, 2021 Zen Soo, Associated Press

HONG KONG — Encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of […]

WhatsApp growth slumps as rivals Signal, Telegram rise

January 14, 2021 Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced […]