Elon Musk is targeting federal workers and organizations through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). His company X, formerly known as Twitter, is now blocking Signal.me links, which are URLs used by the encrypted messaging service Signal to allow people to quickly contact others directly. This information was reported by the blog Disruptionist. Federal workers have been relying on Signal to discreetly report relevant and dangerous activities.
If anyone tries to share a Signal.me link in a direct message, public post, or on their profile page, they will receive error messages like, «This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.» Other responses may include, «We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful.» Engadget has confirmed this block through testing.
Users attempting to click on existing Signal.me links will see a warning message stating, «Warning: this link may be unsafe. The link you are trying to access has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with X’s URL Policy.» They can choose to ignore the warning and proceed to the link if they wish.
Elon Musk is collaborating with President Trump to reduce the number of federal workers across the board. In fact, over 9,500 employees were terminated on Friday, February 14 alone.
This article was originally published on Engadget at .
FUENTE