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The White House faced a backlash after a journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat - where specific details of strikes were discussed - on the commercial app.

"This message is to all the journalists," he says.

The firings follow a major controversy involving the NSC last month when senior officials inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal messaging thread about military strikes in Yemen.

Politicians and, yes, journalists both have a weakness for hyperbole, and so maybe all of this is a bit self serving and over the top?

According to his friends, he was bombarded by very right-wing politicians and journalists who "planted ideas in his mind."