WIRED: Elon Musk’s XChat App Is More Like Facebook’s Messenger Than Signal

“One of XChat’s red flags is that users must connect an existing X account to log in and start messaging. ‘I’m a little suspicious of that, because the more data points you connect together about a person, the more you can track what they’re doing,’ says Maria Villegas Bravo, counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Bravo considers Musk’s past attacks on other apps to be worrisome and self-serving.”

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