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Tesla boss Elon Musk gives wrong Signal, as consumers dump WhatsApp over ‘badly timed’ decision
No-one had heard of this small American company called “Signal Advance” until last week — when Elon Musk accidentally made it famous.
Key points:
- WhatsApp users have until February 8 to accept its new privacy policy, or their accounts will be deleted
- The company says it can’t see your private messages or hear your calls, and won’t share your contacts with Facebook
- Downloads of encrypted messaging apps, Signal and Telegram, are surging
In a deceptively cryptic tweet, the world’s richest man told his 42 million followers to just: “Use Signal.”
Many of them followed that order blindly, and it led to a very expensive mistake.
They thought Mr Musk was telling them to buy shares in a small medical device firm (Signal Advance). So they did,…
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