Considering their entire marketing campaign is "nobody, not even WhatsApp can see your messages," I can see how folks would fall for that.

I think a lot of non-techie people only know signal from the Trump admin using it illegally earlier in the year. In a lot of people's minds because of that they think Signal = insecure because they don't get the nuances of why using it in that specific context -- on personal phones, using a third party app, with a random journalist in the mix -- was bad, but that for most people it's still one of the best options. WhatsApp on the other hand has a lot of marketing around it and if you didn't know that Meta is Facebook I think some people wouldn't even realise who the owners are.

There are some unofficial pages on the fediverse: https://mastodon.bida.im/@globalsumudflotilla

But yeah no links or mentions to mastodon and federated platforms on their website

https://globalsumudflotilla.org/

they were prepared for the drone hit the other day; so hopefully for this as well.

This is yet another reason why you don't use whatsapp

ftfy

Not the first genocide, either

blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point

WhatsApp admins are explicitly interfering with a public protest in order to satisfy a genocidal foreign government.

This is at least as big a deal as TikTok censorship of anti-China posters. It's just on behalf of a US ally, so we're defending it rather than threatening to interfere in their business practices in turn.

the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta

Who appoints WhatsApp administration heads if not Meta? It's the same picture.

Meta*

I am pretty sure those groups were public

Thank you for telling me about meshtastic!

For anyone like me who never heard of it before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshtastic

Amazing that they weren’t using Signal

I wouldn't rule it out. But you can't do public comms over Signal.

it’s even more amazing they weren’t using something like Meshtastic.

Again, I wouldn't rule it out. But if I'm on a public group that's very likely compromised by the IDF, I'm not going to announce all the other protocols they need to block.

He's just reporting one avenue that's been closed to the protesters by a corporate entity that is now complicit in genocide.

Can only say a person who has never used meshtastic.

Source: The struggle.

Doesn't really matter, it's the metadata that reveals your connections and locations. Surprisingly big amount of useful (but not necessarily correct or verifiable) intel can be gathered without eavesdropping into the actual conversations. People have been - on other occasions - targeted because they were connected to a person, who's connections may have been suspicious to some state actors.

It was resurrected in February.

Totally consistent Meta is joined at the hip with US government and therefore more or less in league with Zionists, neocons and Israel just like every american big tech, bank and media company.

Lol wut? Meta has been working with the IOF and NSO and US for years

Several people in the comments suggest Telegram, which doesn't even encrypt group chats. Signal is likely the best option if the group is under 1000 members.

They always do.

That's a distinction without a difference. It's clearly risky to rely on that company for important communications.

It's multiple boats, from multiple countries and locations on aid missions, all converging to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza. The Italian dock workers have threatened to shut down the entirety of Europe if their boats or any boats in the flotilla is fired upon. Which will be interesting because that has happened, a drone has struck one boat so far, nobody has been harmed yet.

@AnUnusualRelicPeople Are so annoyingly stupid, it . makes me mad.I have tried to tell people on Facebook, Instagram and WA, that it's not safe using Israeli controlled app.But sadly, they all thought I'm crazy anti American conspiracy nut.@rcbrk

I don't have any of those, so I'm good.