
“In fact, Twitter executives have testified that a number of them actually use Signal messaging. “Signal, you know, it sounds like it's a nefarious device,” she said. “There actually is no evidence that we destroyed evidence,” one of Musk’s lawyers responded. It also recently added encrypted group calls to the platform. Signal operates similarly to WhatsApp, in the sense that it allows users to send texts, voice messages, photos, videos, GIFs, and files for free. The flood of sign-ups on Thursday briefly caused Signal to. Musk’s side attempted to downplay the significance of the Tesla CEO’s use of Signal. Musk, the billionaire leader of companies like Tesla and SpaceX, offered his own brief encouragement to make the switch. Encrypted messaging app Signal is seeing a wave of new users after Tesla CEO Elon Musk told his Twitter followers to use the service. “We do think that the time has come for the court to issue a severe sanction,” Twitter’s lawyers said during the hearing.

McCormick, to sanction Musk over his side’s handling of his messages. Twitter’s lawyers are asking the judge in the case, Kathaleen St.

Musk and Ellison were texting the morning before Musk tweeted that the Twitter deal was “temporarily on hold.” It’s not clear what the significance of the texts are, but Twitter’s lawyers noted that Musk wrote to Ellison saying “interesting times” before arranging a phone call with him. Lawyers for Twitter also cited “a missing text message” between Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, who was set to be a co-investor in the Twitter deal.
