Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

Signal is running out of money because US intelligence agencies severed their funding, the text claims. Signal president Meredith Whittaker published the app's running costs for the first time on November 16, showing $40 million in operating costs for 2023 and a projected $50 million by 2025. The text says the Open Technology Fund, a program launched in 2012 as a pilot of Radio Free Asia, invested millions in Signal's developer, Open Whisper Systems, a link Whittaker did not mention. It further claims the funding was cut after Signal became popular with Western users during the January 2021 WhatsApp privacy policy changes.