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Apple's iPhone may be the new Signalgate scapegoat

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70% Informative

The Atlantic 's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported that national security advisor Michael Waltz had accidentally added him to a Signal group chat used by U.S. officials planning to bomb Yemen .

An internal White House investigation has determined that the Signalgate scandal was at least partially facilitated by a feature on Waltz 's iPhone.

Waltz claimed that he had no idea how the reporter's number came to be in his phone.

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