Of course, it also served as the perfect inspiration for plenty of memes capturing both the shock and sheer absurdity of the situation. Here’s a roundup of the wildest Pete Hegseth group chat ...

Social media users were quick to seize on to memes and jokes after The Atlantic's top editor was added to a national security group chat on Signal.

So if you’re concerned about what you can use to fill the basketball and Thailand-sized hole in your content-viewing schedule, consider checking out “The Group Chat.” The internet is chaotic ...

Credit: Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Screenshot X @BobbyBorkIII The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added to a Signal group chat with several apparent U.S ...

and CIA Director John Ratcliffe (who confirmed he was in the group chat) over this security screw-up, and Hegseth and Trump simply smearing Goldberg and The Atlantic in an attempt to dismiss the ...

over their involvement in a Signal group chat discussing U.S. strikes in Yemen. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) Another netizen fictionalized the whole incident and posted a meme as if all of the ...