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Matt Binder
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Matt Binder writes disruptionist, a personal blog at disruptionist.com about politics, culture and business. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-08-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Matt Binder's newsletter on tech and politics. The commenter cites a post on X blocking links to other platforms, using it as a source for the claim that federal whistleblowers used Signal.
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A news, politics, technology, and internet culture newsletter by Matt Binder.
Most-linked posts?
- X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-17
What Hacker News says?
I'm not going to psychoanalyse the brain parasite, but I imagine that the reason to do it could be as petty as shadow banning people with Fediverse (e.g. mastodon) handles in their bios shortly after he took over. Also: > Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE. > from https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to... Btw, I don't live i…
Comment linking /p/elon-musks-x-blocks-links-to-signal
on “Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger”Submitted X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links as a story · 803 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk takes America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump as a story · 31 points
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